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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Purposedifferent
When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend15-45 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional30 min Setup, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
3-151-3Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListADR File, Decision Log, RationalePrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsRAID Log, Status Report Source
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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