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Criterion
Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Purposedifferent
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 people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.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 stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-180 min1-2 h2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-64-12Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsSalience Diagram, Strategy per Class
Tagsno overlap
TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
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