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Selected:Concept Mapping ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Fishbone Diagram

Criterion	Knowledge Modeling Concept Mapping	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Operations Failure Mode and Effects Analysis	Operations Fishbone Diagram
Purposedifferent	Concept Mapping arranges terms and relationships in a network that makes subject-matter connections tangible. It fits when a topic needs to be understood structurally rather than linearly.	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 process, product, or service with noticeable failure risks, the method assesses possible failure modes in advance. It directs attention to combinations of occurrence, effect, and detectability.	When a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	High	Low
Timedifferent	1-2 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	2-6 h	30-60 min
Participantsdifferent	1-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-10	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Concept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge Gaps	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	FMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation Actions	Fishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog
Tagsno overlap	KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause	Root causeQualityOperations

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