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| Criterion |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Facilitation Decision Jam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 20-45 min | 45-90 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 Reviewer | 4-10 | 3-10 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop |