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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Current Reality TreeBarrier AnalysisTheory of Constraints Thinking Process
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree |  Operations Barrier Analysis |  Systems Thinking Theory of Constraints Thinking Process |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once. | For a risk that can only be managed through multiple layers of protection, the method examines the effectiveness of each barrier. It shows where safeguards are missing, too weak, or fail under real conditions. | The Theory of Constraints Thinking Process exposes a system's bottleneck and the logic behind it. It suits situations where many symptoms trace back to the same limiting relationship. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 2-6 h | 2-4 h | 0.5-3 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-8 | 2-6 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas | Barrier Inventory, Failure Analysis per Barrier, Action Backlog | Current Reality Logic, Conflict Cloud, Future Reality Tree, Implementation Obstacles |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality | Root causeSafetyIncident | Theory of ConstraintsConstraintsSystems thinkingCausality |