Software Architect's Handbook

Phase 1 – Pre-meeting

The first phase is a meeting to prepare for the actual review. For a software architecture review, this meeting typically takes place between the software architect and the review facilitator. If someone other than the software architect is responsible for the design of the portion of the architecture being reviewed, this person should join the meeting with the review facilitator. The pre-meeting consists of the following steps:

1. Identify reviewers
2. Prepare the design presentation
3. Prepare the seed scenarios
4. Prepare for the review meeting

Step 1 – Identify reviewers

In this step in the ARID approach, the software architect and review facilitator meet to identify the group of people who will attend the review meeting. ...