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Selected:Pareto Analysis ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Assumption Mapping Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

Criterion	Decision Making Pareto Analysis	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping	Operations Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Purposedifferent	In many problem situations, effect is distributed unequally across many causes. A Pareto Analysis separates the few drivers with high leverage from the long remainder and focuses attention on what measurably moves the needle.	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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.	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	Low	Medium	Medium	High
Timedifferent	30-60 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-60 min	2-6 h
Participantsdifferent	1-6	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	3-10
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Pareto Chart, Top Causes, Focus List	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking	FMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation Actions
Tagsno overlap	PrioritizationQualityFocusRoot cause	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation	RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause

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