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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy Product Vision Board | ![]() Decision Making RAPID | ![]() Architecture Request for Comments | ![]() Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a product needs a shared direction, it connects target audience, benefit, and business picture in a clear vision. It makes the envisioned future legible for the team. | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 45-90 min | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | 3-20 Reviewer | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Product Vision Board, Vision Statement, Assumptions and Validation Questions | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | VisionCanvasStrategyAlignment | DecisionRolesGovernance | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas |



