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| Criterion |  Delivery RAID Log |  UX Research User Interviews |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  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 teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. | 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. | 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 | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 30–60 min per interview | 15-45 min | 1-3 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 1 participant per interview | 1-3 | 1-4 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture |