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Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Purposedifferent
When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
Ongoing1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
2-123-20 Reviewer3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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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 Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Paper illustration of ICE Scoring with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
ICE Scoring