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Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Strategy Map with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Strategy Map
Paper illustration of Barrier Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
Barrier 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.A Strategy Map translates strategy into a few connected objectives across perspectives such as finance, customers, processes, and learning. This makes visible which capabilities and activities are meant to drive which results.For a risk that can only be managed through multiple layers of protection, the method examines the effectiveness of each barrier. It shows where safeguards are missing, too weak, or fail under real conditions.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional2-4 h workshop plus review2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-102-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsStrategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect HypothesesBarrier Inventory, Failure Analysis per Barrier, Action Backlog
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality
Root causeSafetyIncident
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Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor Analysis
Paper illustration of MORT Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
MORT Analysis
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas