Managing the architecture process
The architecture solution process may be exciting, challenging, thought-provoking, or all of these. It is your job to get your team through it and to the right design. The next steps are to use the problem-framing information you gathered earlier to generate solutions, evaluate the solutions, and then work through the details of the chosen design approach.
At the beginning, your team may have many solutions to consider, but if your team is lacking in ideas, you can arrange for some brainstorming sessions. In brainstorming, there are no wrong answers and no ideas are too absurd. Brainstorming is most effective when focused only on idea generation, not editing. One seemingly absurd idea may inspire another one that can be a viable solution, so roll with the absurdity and encourage everyone to have fun with it. Embolden your team to think big and be creative during this process to maximize the ideas generated. From there, you can edit down into viable...
