Software Architect's Handbook

Step 3 – Identify the reviewers needed

In this ADR step, the reviewers for the part of the design being reviewed are identified. We want reviewers to focus on the areas they are most suited to review. The goal is to get people with different perspectives and sets of knowledge to participate as reviewers.

Examples of reviewers include development team members who did not work on the part of the architecture being reviewed, technical staff from other projects, users of the system, non-technical reviewers who are specialists or have knowledge related to the software system, reviewers who are external to the organization, and anyone else who may be adept at identifying potential issues with a design.