Design Review Mechanics
Kanvas’s Designer offers enables you to place comments “inline” with your infrastructure as code.
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Use comments to offer feedback to team members, take detailed design notes, capture helpful tips for your team members, and include justification as to your infrastructure and application configuration decisions. Pay it forward to your future self by leaving historical record for reference later.
Related Documentation: Design Reviews
Lessons learned in this Peer Review module:
- Collaboration is Key: Kanvas facilitates collaborative design through peer reviews. It emphasizes both asynchronous (commenting, notifications) and synchronous (real-time discussion) methods.
- Clear Workflow: The script outlines a defined workflow for peer reviews, from requesting a review to providing feedback and reaching completion.
- Specific Feedback: Kanvas allows users to provide feedback on specific components of a design, making the review process more targeted and effective.
- Centralized Review: All feedback is stored within the Kanvas design, creating a centralized location for review and discussion.
- Benefits of Peer Review: The script highlights the advantages of using Kanvas for peer review, such as improved collaboration, reduced errors, and faster design cycles.
- Flexibility: The script allows for different methods of adding comments (drag and drop, toolbar icon, hotkey, right-click) to accommodate user preferences.
- Notifications: Users receive notifications for review requests and comments, ensuring they stay updated.
- Both Asynchronous and Synchronous Collaboration are Important: The demo covers both types of interaction.