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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)
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration for Domain Context Map
Domain Modeling
Domain Context Map
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 several contexts need to talk to each other, it makes their relationships and dependencies legible. It helps sort integration pressure and responsibilities across system boundaries.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.When a domain model and its associated contexts need to be thought through together, it creates a shared overview. It connects the business view and organizational boundary into a readable whole.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-3 hHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-84-123-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsContext Map, Integration Patterns, Boundary NotesBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapDomain Context Map, Boundary Notes, Ownership Map
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesStrategy
StrategyMetricsExecution
Domain-Driven DesignContextBoundaries
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