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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 Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Operations
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper fishbone diagram with a measurable effect at the head and six labeled cause branches.
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.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.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
MediumHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional2-6 h1-2 h Setup, laufend30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-1012-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsFMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation ActionsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineFishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
Root causeQualityOperations
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