| Activity 36 | Sanity Check |
A fast, simple exercise designed to expose issues in team communication or understanding. Sanity checks verify everyone is indeed on the same page. They can also identify opportunities for improving team operations, artifacts, and design methods.
When designing a sanity check, think back to the pop quizzes you dreaded in elementary school. Any short-burst activity that forces teammates to actively think about the architecture is a great sanity check candidate. Verbal sanity checks are an efficient way to end most collaborative design sessions.
Benefits
-
Reinforce architectural responsibility across the team.
-
Identify problems caused by misunderstandings and gaps in knowledge early.
-
Create teaching and coaching opportunities. ...
Get Design It! now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
