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If you’re a C++ programmer, you’ve surely written code in accordance with the RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization) idiom. Inspired by the RAII acronym, BD00 presents the RAID idiom: Requirements Allocation Is Design…

In order to allocate requirements to a design, you must have a design in mind that you think satisfies those requirements. Circularly speaking, in order to create a design (like the one above), you must have a set of requirements in mind to fuel your design process. Thus, RAID == DIRA (Design Is Requirements Allocation).