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Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
A paper-based illustration representing arc42 with its core stages and visible working result.
Architecture
arc42
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Purposedifferent
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.arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.
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1-4 h1-2 Tage1-4 Wochen
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3-81-41-6
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WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
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Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanArchitecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment ViewExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
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Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
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Architecture
Risk Storming
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Product Discovery
Smoke Test
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Architecture Communication Canvas