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Criterion
Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration for Change Analysis.
Operations
Change Analysis
Paper illustration for 3-Circle Venn Diagram
Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram
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.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 deviation after a change, the method isolates the influence of the altered condition. It narrows down which differences are relevant and which are just accompanying noise.When three perspectives matter at the same time, a Three-Circle Venn Diagram shows the overlaps and remainders precisely. It makes visible where shared effect arises and where only a partial perspective applies.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-180 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional45-120 min15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
1-6Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-62-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsChange Matrix, Cause Hypotheses, Validation Questions, Action ListVenn Diagram, Overlap Notes, Differentiators
Tagsno overlap
TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ChangeRoot causeTroubleshootingComparison
ComparisonFacilitationAlignment
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