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Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
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.For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.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
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Timedifferent
30 min Setup, dann laufend1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone4-101-4
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
RAID Log, Status Report SourceProblem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
InnovationPrototypeResearch
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
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Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas