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Selected:Process Mapping ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Theory of Constraints Bottleneck Analysis

Criterion	Operations Process Mapping	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Operations Theory of Constraints	Operations Bottleneck Analysis
Purposedifferent	With a confusing workflow that has many handoffs, the method makes the actual process visible. It shows where work is passed on, delayed, or duplicated, so improvement targets the right spots.	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.	For a system that does not get faster despite effort, the method directs attention to the bottleneck. It concentrates improvement on the point that actually limits throughput.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	High	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	2-4 h Analyse, laufend	1-3 h
Participantsdifferent	3-10	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-12	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Process Map, Handoff List, Improvement Backlog	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Constraint Map, Improvement Plan, Flow Metrics	Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures
Tagsno overlap	ProcessOperationsImprovement	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	OperationsConstraintsFlowImprovement	FlowMeasurementConstraints

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