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Criterion
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond
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 RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Purposedifferent
When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage1-3 Tage15-45 min30 min Setup, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team1-41-31-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, RationaleADR File, Decision Log, RationaleRAID Log, Status Report Source
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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