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Criterion
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
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.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h15-45 min60–90 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-301-32-83-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasADR File, Decision Log, RationaleStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesSalience Diagram, Strategy per Class
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
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