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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 notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
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.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-2 h Setup, laufend1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation15-30
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
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Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
Operations
Weekly Review