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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 Strategy Map with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Strategy Map
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
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.A Strategy Map translates strategy into a few connected objectives across perspectives such as finance, customers, processes, and learning. This makes visible which capabilities and activities are meant to drive which results.The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-2 h Setup, laufend2-4 h workshop plus review1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation14-103-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineStrategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect HypothesesInception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality
AlignmentArchitectureCanvas
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