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Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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.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.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.
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Timedifferent
1-4 h1-3 h15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-81-81-3
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
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RiskDecisionSensemaking
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