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| Criterion |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Delivery RAID Log |  Architecture Views and Beyond |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-180 min | 15-45 min | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 1-3 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 1-3 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 1-4 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture |