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| Criterion |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Architecture arc42 |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 h | 1-2 Tage | 1-3 Tage | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 1-4 | 1-4 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionSensemaking | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | SensemakingDecisionRationale |