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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-3 Tage | 15-45 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 1-4 | 1-3 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |