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Delivery
RAID Log
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Architecture
Request for Comments
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
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.An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale.For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
30 min Setup, dann laufend1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-20 Reviewer3-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
RAID Log, Status Report SourceRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan
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RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
RiskDecisionSensemaking
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Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing