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Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Purposedifferent
When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLow
Timedifferent
Ongoing15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-121-3
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping