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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Business Model CanvasFault IsolationValue Chain Analysis
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Business Strategy Business Model Canvas |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Business Strategy Value Chain 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. | 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. | Value Chain Analysis shows where value is created, costs accrue, and differentiation becomes possible along the process. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a value-chain map and lever list. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-2 h | 30-180 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 | 1-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Value Chain Map, Lever List |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis |