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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 of Scatter Diagram with its method-specific working model.
Operations
Scatter 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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-4
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsScatter Plot, Korrelationsnotiz, Hypothesenliste
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
Root causeQualityVisualization
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Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
Operations
8D Problem Solving
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
A paper-based illustration representing C4 Model with its core stages and visible working result.
Architecture
C4 Model
Paper illustration for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Operations
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis