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| Criterion |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |  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. | The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 h | 60-120 min | 1-3 Tage | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-8 | 1-4 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionSensemaking | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | SensemakingDecisionRationale |