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| Criterion |  Delivery RAID Log |  UX Research Diary Study |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 1-4 Wochen | 1-3 Tage | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 5-20 | 1-4 | 1-3 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | UX researchTrackingBehavior | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance |