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Selected:Request for Comments Architecture Inception Canvas Alignment Mapping Stakeholder Salience Model

Criterion	Architecture Request for Comments	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Facilitation Alignment Mapping	Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model
Purposedifferent	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.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.	When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung	1-2 h	1-2 h	60-90 min
Participantsdifferent	3-20 Reviewer	3-8	4-12	3-6
Formatdifferent	Async	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions	Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation	StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance

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