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| Criterion |  Delivery RAID Log |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Architecture Views and Beyond |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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 ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 60-180 min | 15-45 min | 1-3 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 4-20 | 1-3 | 1-4 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture |