Participant Catas

How to architect yourself into a corner.

• The Solution-First Thinker Skip the problem exploration and jump straight to picking technologies.
• The Loudest Voice One person dominates the conversation, dictating the design while the rest of the team watches.
• The Empty Hands Fear Rush to fill the whiteboard because having nothing to present feels worse than presenting the wrong thing.
• The Deer in Headlights The team hits a wall and freezes. Nobody knows how to move forward, and nobody is willing to try.
• The Silent Audience Sit through other teams’ presentations without asking a single question.
• The Recurring Question Questions keep coming back mid-discussion, but the team re-answers them instead of recognizing the misalignment underneath.

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Table of contents

• The Deer in Headlights
• The Empty Hands Fear
• The Loudest Voice
• The Recurring Question
• The Silent Audience
• The Solution-First Thinker