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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Process Mapping Theory of Constraints Gemba Walk

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Operations Process Mapping	Operations Theory of Constraints	Operations Gemba Walk
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.	With a confusing workflow that has many handoffs, the method makes the actual process visible. It shows where work is passed on, delayed, or duplicated, so improvement targets the right spots.	For a system that does not get faster despite effort, the method directs attention to the bottleneck. It concentrates improvement on the point that actually limits throughput.	When there is uncertainty about the real course of a process, the method brings observation to the place where work happens. It combines perception, follow-up questions, and process knowledge so decisions rest on actual workflows instead of assumptions.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	High	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 h	2-4 h Analyse, laufend	30-120 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-10	3-12	2-6
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	Process Map, Handoff List, Improvement Backlog	Constraint Map, Improvement Plan, Flow Metrics	Observation Notes, Improvement Ideas
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ProcessOperationsImprovement	OperationsConstraintsFlowImprovement	LeanObservationProcessOperations

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