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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 Root Cause Tree Analysis
Operations
Root Cause Tree Analysis
Paper illustration of Scatter Diagram with its method-specific working model.
Operations
Scatter Diagram
Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
Operations
Root Cause 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 problem with several suspected causes, the method builds a causal structure instead of a mere list. It makes visible how causes connect and where the strongest points of leverage lie.When the question is whether two measures are related, the method makes patterns in the data picture visible. It separates felt correlations from relationships that actually show up in the data.When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-3 h30-90 min1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-81-43-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsCause Tree, Evidence Notes, CountermeasuresScatter Plot, Korrelationsnotiz, HypothesenlisteProblem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
Root causeTreeIncidentQuality
Root causeQualityVisualization
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
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