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| Criterion |  Delivery RAID Log |  UX Research User Interviews |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 30–60 min per interview | 1-3 Tage | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 1 participant per interview | 1-4 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan |
Tagsno overlap | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas |