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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)
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
Paper illustration for Ivy Lee Method
Operations
Ivy Lee Method
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.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.With a restless workday full of too many open items, the method creates radical simplicity. It directs attention to a short sequence instead of a broad, still-open field.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional60-120 min15-90 min daily5-10 min daily
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-811
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication PlanPriority Task, Completion Note, Daily FocusDaily Priority List, Completion Notes
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
PrioritizationProductivityExecution
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