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| Criterion |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Architecture Risk Storming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 h | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 1-5 Tage | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-20 Reviewer | Nutzertraffic | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionSensemaking | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation |