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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)
Paper illustration of Strategy Map with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Strategy Map
Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
Operations
Weekly Review
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.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.In a week with many open loops, the method creates distance from operational noise. It organizes commitments, calendar, and projects so the next week becomes workable.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional2-4 h workshop plus review30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-101
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsStrategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect HypothesesUpdated Task System, Weekly Focus, Next Actions
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality
ProductivityExecutionPlanning
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Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper objective sheet with five SMART fields, baseline, target, owner, deadline and a complete result statement.
Product Strategy
SMART Goals
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas