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Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of a Business Model Canvas with nine connected compartments, a few notes and symbols for customers, delivery and economic relationships.
Business Strategy
Business Model Canvas
Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
Paper illustration of Business Model Stress Test with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Business Model Stress Test
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.The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins.In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected.A Business Model Stress Test checks how well a business model holds up under pressure and headwinds. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a stress-test report and action plan per scenario.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-2 h30-180 minHalf day
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-81-63-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsBusiness Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business HypothesesFault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaStress Test Report, Action Plan per Scenario
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
Business modelStrategyValueInnovation
TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
StrategyBusiness modelRiskDiagnosis
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