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Selected:Constraint AnalysisARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Argument MappingDecision Tree
| Criterion |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  Decision Making Decision Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 h | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-8 | 1-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | SensemakingDecisionRationale | DecisionTreeOptions |