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Selected:Views and Beyond ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Golden Path Architecture Decision Record

Criterion	Architecture Views and Beyond	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Engineering Golden Path	Architecture Architecture Decision Record
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.	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.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	1-3 Tage	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 Tage Setup, laufend	15-45 min
Participantsdifferent	1-4	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	1-3
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Async
Outputdifferent	Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap	DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	EngineeringProductivityGovernance	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance

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