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Software architecture plans are refined through interactive interviewing by conducting collaborative grilling sessions that extract design decisions and assumptions, automatically generating structured documentation for decision tracking. This reduces ambiguity and fosters clarity in iterative design workshops.

An Architectural Decision Record (ADR) is structured documentation that captures design decisions and assumptions made during software architecture planning. You need one when preparing a high-level architectural design to ensure decision tracking and reduce ambiguity across the team.

Design decisions and assumptions are documented during planning workshops by using AI-mediated decision logging that automatically generates ADRs and glossaries from interactive interview sessions, ensuring all architectural choices are tracked and shared.

Interactive planning can be used to improve existing design documentation through focused grilling sessions that extract and refine architectural decisions, leveraging AI-mediated decision logging to update ADRs and glossaries with clarified assumptions.

Architecture interview-based refinement requires active collaboration to conduct the interactive interviewing sessions needed for AI-mediated decision logging, ensuring that the resulting ADRs and glossaries accurately reflect the team's design decisions and assumptions.

Interactive planning for architecture decision tracking is limited by its reliance on active collaboration and AI-mediated decision logging, making it less suitable for fully automated pipelines or scenarios where team members cannot participate in iterative design workshops.