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Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Purposedifferent
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.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.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h30 min Setup, dann laufend60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
1-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleRAID Log, Status Report SourceCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan
Tagsno overlap
SensemakingDecisionRationale
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
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Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
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Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
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Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
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Request for Comments