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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Evaporating Cloud System Dynamics Simulation Assumption Mapping

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud	Systems Thinking System Dynamics Simulation	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping
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.	The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.	System Dynamics Simulation makes assumptions about time, delay, and feedback testable through experiments. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a simulation model and scenario reports.	When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	High	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	60-120 min	Mehrere Tage bis Wochen	45-60 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	1-5 Modellierende, Stakeholder asynchron	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments	Simulation Model, Scenario Reports	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking	Systems thinkingDynamicsSimulationAnalysis	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation

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