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Criterion
Paper radar with five axes, two current and target profiles, and evidence cards beside each dimension.
Decision Making
Radar
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
Paper illustration for RAPID
Decision Making
RAPID
Purposedifferent
When capabilities, maturity levels, or market positions need to be compared across several dimensions, overview is easily lost. Radar brings different characteristics into a shared picture and shows patterns faster than tables do.The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 h1-2 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-103-103-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Radar Map, Capability Scores, Action AreasArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality AttributesRAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log
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AssessmentPortfolioCapability
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
DecisionRolesGovernance
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Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments