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| Criterion |  Decision Making RAPID |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas |  Architecture Request for Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2-3 h | 1-2 h | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-8 | 3-8 | 3-20 Reviewer |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionRolesGovernance | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance |