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Criterion
Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond
Purposedifferent
In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.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
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-120 min30 min Setup, dann laufend1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone1-4
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Option Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision InputsRAID Log, Status Report SourceArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
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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: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping