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Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Purposedifferent
Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale.
Complexitydifferent
HighMedium
Timedifferent
Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung
Participantsdifferent
4-123-20 Reviewer
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets
Tagsno overlap
StrategyMetricsExecution
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
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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 Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping