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Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
A paper tomato timer connects a focus task, short breaks and a work record.
Operations
Pomodoro Technique
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture 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.For easily distracted solo work, the method sets clear time boundaries for concentrated work. It protects attention when large tasks would otherwise fall apart into small avoidance moves.The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional25 min Zyklen1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation13-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsFocus Sessions, Task Progress, Interruption NotesArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
FocusTime managementProductivityExecution
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
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Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
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Operations
Eat the Frog
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Operations
Getting Things Done
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Architecture
Risk Storming