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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Operations Fishbone Diagram |  Operations Kepner-Tregoe |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | When a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers. | For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min | 2-8 h |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Fishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog | Problem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | Root causeQualityOperations | Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations |
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