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Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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
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Timedifferent
1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung30 min Setup, dann laufend1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
3-20 Reviewer1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone1-6
Formatsame
AsyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsRAID Log, Status Report SourceExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
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ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
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Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
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Architecture
Risk Storming
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
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Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas