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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Barrier AnalysisBehavior Over Time GraphFamily Tree Analysis
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Operations Barrier Analysis | ![]() Systems Thinking Behavior Over Time Graph | ![]() Operations Family Tree Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 risk that can only be managed through multiple layers of protection, the method examines the effectiveness of each barrier. It shows where safeguards are missing, too weak, or fail under real conditions. | A Behavior Over Time Graph shows how a metric or observation develops over time. The method makes trends, breaks, and recurring patterns visible that get lost in snapshots. | For a series of incidents with a similar pattern, the method arranges individual events as branches of a common origin. It makes visible which conditions keep recurring. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 2-4 h | 20-45 min | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-6 | 1-10 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Barrier Inventory, Failure Analysis per Barrier, Action Backlog | Behavior Over Time Graph, Trend Hypotheses, Key Events | Family Tree Diagram, Pattern Notes, Systemic Measures |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | Root causeSafetyIncident | Systems thinkingPatternsDynamics | Root causePatternsIncidentSystemic |



