Design Review Recipes

Design reviews come in all shapes and sizes. There are also different items to consider when creating a design at different stages during an engagement

Design Review Process

• Incorporate design reviews throughout the lifetime of an engagement

Design Review Templates

Game Plan

• The same template already in use today
• High level architecture and design
• Includes technologies, languages & products to complete engagement objective

Milestone / Epic Design Review

• Should be considered when an engagement contains multiple milestones or epics
• Design should be more detailed than game plan
• May require unique deployment, security and/or privacy characteristics from other milestones

Feature/story design review

• Design for complex features or stories
• Will reuse deployment, security and other characteristics defined within game plan or milestone
• May require new libraries, OSS or patterns to accomplish goals

Task design review

• Highly detailed design for a complex tasks with many unknowns
• Will integrate into higher level feature/component designs