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Selected:Process Mapping Assumption Mapping ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)After-Action Review

Criterion	Operations Process Mapping	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Operations After-Action Review
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.	When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.	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.	After missions or project phases with unclear outcomes, the method makes visible what actually happened and what can be learned from it. It separates course, effect, and causes so experience turns into solid improvement.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	1-3 h	45-60 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	20-45 min
Participantsdifferent	3-10	2-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-12
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Process Map, Handoff List, Improvement Backlog	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Lessons learned, Action items, Event summary
Tagsno overlap	ProcessOperationsImprovement	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	LearningOperationsImprovement

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