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| Criterion |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Facilitation Power Interest Grid |
|---|---|---|---|
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 many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Power Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder |
Tagsno overlap | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning |
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