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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Time BlockingDecision TreeConstraint Analysis
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Operations Time Blocking | ![]() Decision Making Decision Tree | ![]() Decision Making Constraint Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 calendar that grows on request, the method makes available time explicit again. It combines appointments, focus work, and buffer into a more realistic day structure. | 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. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 15-30 min Planung, laufend | 30-90 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1 | 1-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Blocked Calendar, Capacity View, Focus Plan | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | PlanningTime managementFocus | DecisionTreeOptions | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions |



