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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 illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional30 min Setup, dann laufend1-2 h60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone4-124-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsAnnotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
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