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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Root Cause Tree AnalysisScatter DiagramRoot Cause Analysis
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Operations Root Cause Tree Analysis | ![]() Operations Scatter Diagram | ![]() 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 | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 h | 30-90 min | 1-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 | 1-4 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Cause Tree, Evidence Notes, Countermeasures | Scatter Plot, Korrelationsnotiz, Hypothesenliste | Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | Root causeTreeIncidentQuality | Root causeQualityVisualization | Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident |



