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| Criterion |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Architecture Risk Storming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 20–45 min | 1-3 Tage | 1-5 Tage | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Small cross-functional group | 1-4 | Nutzertraffic | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation |