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Criterion
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
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.When a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.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
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30 min Setup, dann laufend30-60 min1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-71-4
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
RAID Log, Status Report SourceExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
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)
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example