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Paper Kanban board with To Discuss, Discussing and Discussed columns, topic cards, votes and timer.
Facilitation
Lean Coffee
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Purposedifferent
When a group without a fixed agenda needs to get into useful conversations quickly, Lean Coffee structures the start around interests rather than a presentation. The group itself negotiates which topics get time first and which wait.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.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min30 min Setup, dann laufend60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
3-201-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized Topics, Discussion Notes, Action ItemsRAID Log, Status Report SourceCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationAutonomyDialogue
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
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Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for Storytelling
Facilitation
Storytelling
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping