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Criterion
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
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 an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-20 Reviewer1-6
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
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Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping