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Selected:Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting Architecture Inception Canvas Request for Comments Decision Rights Mapping

Criterion	Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Architecture Request for Comments	Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping
Purposedifferent	When systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	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.	In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	30-240 min	1-2 h	1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung	90-180 min
Participantsdifferent	1-6	3-8	3-20 Reviewer	4-12
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets	Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement
Tagsno overlap	TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance	DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility

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