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Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Purposedifferent
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.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.When many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-2 h1-2 h Setup, laufend30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-1012-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality AttributesAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutinePower Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder
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CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop