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Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent
Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.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
LowLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
60-90 minHalf day initial, dann laufend1-2 h2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
4-12Ein Team plus Stakeholder3-8Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action BacklogTeam API DocumentInception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open QuestionsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
AlignmentArchitectureCanvas
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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