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Selected:IBIS ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting Argument Mapping

Criterion	Knowledge Modeling IBIS	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting	Decision Making Argument Mapping
Purposedifferent	IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.	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 systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable.	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.
Complexitysame	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	30-240 min	1-3 h
Participantsdifferent	2-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-6	1-8
Formatsame	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Issue Map, Positions, Argument Notes	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary	Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap	RationaleKnowledgeDecision	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis	SensemakingDecisionRationale

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