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Selected:Failure Scenario AnalysisARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
| Criterion | ![]() Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Operations Failure Mode and Effects Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In critical processes, it is not enough to plan only for the normal case. Failure Scenario Analysis looks at the path into failure and shows which failures, chains, and control gaps cause the most damage. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 2-6 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | FMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation Actions |
Tagsno overlap | FailureResilienceRisk | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause |
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