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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree |  Decision Making Decision Tree |
|---|---|---|---|
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 decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 2-6 h | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-8 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
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 | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality | DecisionTreeOptions |
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