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Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
Operations
Accountability Ladder
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Purposedifferent
With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on.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.A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
20-45 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1-8Designers, developers as users, and facilitation5-15
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching NotesPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsQuality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns
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ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
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Paper illustration for Responsibility Poker.
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Responsibility Poker
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Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
A structured reflection surfaces what was liked, learned, lacked, and longed for. It is a conversation format and does not validate actions automatically.
Agile
4Ls Retrospective