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ADM Tailoring Canvas

Adapt the architecture development method deliberately by treating iteration, method tailoring, and scaling by context as three distinct levers, each adjusted for its own reason rather than as a single vague dial.

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Tailoring the ADM: three distinct levers, not a single dial

Iteration, method tailoring, and scaling are three separate ways to adapt the architecture development method, and treating them as one dial blurs decisions that should each be made on their own terms.

Naming iteration, tailoring, and scaling as distinct levers keeps adaptation deliberate, so a team adjusts the cycle, the method, and the effort each for its own reason.

Tailoring the ADM: three distinct levers, not a single dial A matrix of three ADM adaptation levers. Each row is a lever: iteration, method tailoring, and scaling by context. The first column says what the lever changes; the second gives a concrete example of the move. Lever What it changes Example move IterationCycling within andacross phasesRevisit Business asnew findings surface MethodtailoringThe method shapedto the enterpriseFit it to existinggovernance ScalingEffort set by size,speed, and riskLighter for a smallfast team Three levers, not one knob; adjust each for its own reason.