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Criterion
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Purposedifferent
An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumHigh
Timedifferent
15-45 min30 min Setup, dann laufend1-3 h1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1-31-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone1-83-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
ADR File, Decision Log, RationaleRAID Log, Status Report SourceArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
SensemakingDecisionRationale
RiskDecisionSensemaking
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