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Criterion
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 four-quadrant grid with tasks sorted by importance and urgency and translated into actions.
Decision Making
Eisenhower Matrix
Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
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.It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional15-30 min30-180 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-61-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsEisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation NotesFault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
PrioritizationFocusTasks
TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
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Paper illustration for Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting.
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Decision Making
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