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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling Event Modeling |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic. | 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 | 2-6 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Event Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |
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