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Paper illustration of a four-quadrant grid with tasks sorted by importance and urgency and translated into actions.
Decision Making
Eisenhower Matrix
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent
It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
15-30 min60-120 min1-2 h2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
1-62-83-10Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Eisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation NotesCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication PlanArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality AttributesPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
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PrioritizationFocusTasks
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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