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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 Tree Analysis.
Operations
Fault 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 critical top event with several possible triggers, the method logically models failure paths. It makes visible which combinations of conditions can lead to damage.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHigh
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsFault Tree, Critical Paths, Cause Hypotheses, Control Actions
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
RiskRoot causeSafety
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Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration of Barrier Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
Barrier Analysis