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Criterion
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of Shape-first Modeling with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Shape-First Modeling
Purposedifferent
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 a story needs clear checkpoints before implementation, it sharpens expectation and scope together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Acceptance Criteria and a Story Update.Shape-First Modeling defines data quality through shapes before implementation or integration frays at the edges. The approach fits when validation and data contracts should be part of the design from the start.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional20-40 min pro StoryHalber Tag pro Domain Slice
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-61-4
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsAcceptance Criteria, Story UpdateSHACL or ShEx Shapes, Validation Reports, Data Contracts, Shape Documentation
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
Knowledge graphValidationSemantic
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Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
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Agile
Example Mapping
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Agile
Specification by Example
Paper illustration of Linked Open Terms with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Linked Open Terms