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Criterion
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Purposedifferent
Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.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.The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.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
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Timedifferent
90-180 min1-2 h1-2 h60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-84-123-104-10
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
CoD Table, Prioritization SequenceAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality AttributesProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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