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Criterion
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
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.The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list.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.Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.
Complexitysame
LowLowLowLow
Timedifferent
30 min Setup, dann laufend5-15 min15-45 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone1-51-34-12
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
RAID Log, Status Report SourceVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepADR File, Decision Log, RationaleAnnotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog
Tagsno overlap
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
StartupValidationCompetition
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
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