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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
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
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.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
2-12Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
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FlowVisual managementDelivery
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
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Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
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Risk Storming
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
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