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Criterion	Architecture Views and Beyond	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Engineering Golden Path	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent	Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.	An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.	When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate.	ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 Tage	15-45 min	1-3 Tage Setup, laufend	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	1-4	1-3	2-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	EngineeringProductivityGovernance	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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