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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Purposedifferent
When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.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
LowHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-4 Wochen30-90 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-66-30 Experten1-62-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption ListCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan
Tagsno overlap
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
DecisionTreeOptions
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
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