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| Criterion |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 20–45 min | 1-3 Tage | 45-90 min | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | Small cross-functional group | 1-4 | 2-8 | 1-3 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance |