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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 for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
Paper illustration for Change Analysis.
Operations
Change 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.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.For a deviation after a change, the method isolates the influence of the altered condition. It narrows down which differences are relevant and which are just accompanying noise.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional30-180 min45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-62-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsFault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaChange Matrix, Cause Hypotheses, Validation Questions, Action List
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
ChangeRoot causeTroubleshootingComparison
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Architecture
SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting.
Engineering
Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
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Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram