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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Operations MORT 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. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | For a safety-relevant event or a system with high protection requirements, the method examines where controls failed. It exposes both technical and organizational gaps. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-5 Tage | Mehrere Tage bis Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | Nutzertraffic | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | MORT Worksheets, Findings per Branch, Corrective Actions, Systemic Recommendations |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | Root causeSafetySystemicIncident |
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