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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Change Analysis Fishbone Diagram

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Operations Failure Mode and Effects Analysis	Operations Change Analysis	Operations Fishbone Diagram
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 process, product, or service with noticeable failure risks, the method assesses possible failure modes in advance. It directs attention to combinations of occurrence, effect, and detectability.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	High	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	2-6 h	45-120 min	30-60 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-10	2-6	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	FMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation Actions	Change Matrix, Cause Hypotheses, Validation Questions, Action List	Fishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause	ChangeRoot causeTroubleshootingComparison	Root causeQualityOperations

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