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Paper illustration for Delegation Poker.
Facilitation
Delegation Poker
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Architecture
Request for Comments
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Purposedifferent
When decisions get stuck between leadership and team, Delegation Poker clarifies the desired scope of autonomy. It shows how much decision-making latitude a role should actually get in practice.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 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
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-103-20 Reviewer1-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Delegation Board, Decision Boundaries, Role AgreementsRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
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AutonomyRolesTeam
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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Decision Making
RAPID
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