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| Criterion |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | 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. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 60-180 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 Reviewer | 4-20 | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |