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Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Purposedifferent
Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.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.In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
90-180 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
3-8Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
CoD Table, Prioritization SequencePrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsDecision Rights Matrix, Agreement
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PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility
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Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas