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Criterion
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Purposedifferent
A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.
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Timedifferent
2-6 h15-45 min30 min Setup, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
3-81-31-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention IdeasADR File, Decision Log, RationaleRAID Log, Status Report Source
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Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints Thinking Process.
Systems Thinking
Theory of Constraints Thinking Process
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond