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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Spotify Model MappingFault IsolationTeam Topologies Interaction Modes
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Team Design Spotify Model Mapping | ![]() Engineering Fault Isolation | ![]() Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a team landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action list. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | When several teams collaborate repeatedly, it describes the right interaction mode for each interface between them. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as an interaction heat map and pairwise agreements. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 90-180 min | 30-180 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 5-15 | 1-6 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Spotify Model Map, Action List | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |



