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| Criterion |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Decision Making RAPID |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Architecture Request for Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 45-90 min | 60-180 min | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 3-12 | 4-20 | 3-20 Reviewer |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | DecisionRolesGovernance | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance |