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Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent
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.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
LowMedium
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus StakeholderDesigners, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
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Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
A paper-based illustration representing C4 Model with its core stages and visible working result.
Architecture
C4 Model