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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
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond
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.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing60-120 min1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
2-122-81-4
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication PlanArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
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Communication Plan
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