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Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond
Four paper stations connect system purpose, quality goals, risk cards and focused investigation with a target and gap profile.
Architecture
LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews)
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
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.Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail.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
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Timedifferent
1-3 h1-3 Tage3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1-81-41 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, RationaleLean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checksChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan
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SensemakingDecisionRationale
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
RiskDecisionSensemaking
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