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| Criterion |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 1-3 Tage | 15-45 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 1-4 | 1-3 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | SensemakingDecisionRationale |