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Selected:Failure Scenario Analysis Risk Storming Smoke Test ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis	Architecture Risk Storming	Product Discovery Smoke Test	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
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.	Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 h	60-90 min	1-5 Tage	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	3-8	4-12	Nutzertraffic	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop	Async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions	Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog	Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	FailureResilienceRisk	RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation	ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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