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A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Purposedifferent
In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.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
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
20–45 min60-120 min30 min Setup, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
Small cross-functional group2-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication PlanRAID Log, Status Report Source
Tagsno overlap
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record