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| Criterion | ![]() Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop | ![]() Delivery RAID Log | ![]() Architecture Request for Comments | ![]() Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties. | 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. | 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 Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 3-20 Reviewer | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | RAID Log, Status Report Source | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas |



