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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Facilitation Decision Jam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | 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. | 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. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 15-45 min | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 1-3 | 3-20 Reviewer | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop |