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| Criterion |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | FlowMeasurementConstraints | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |
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