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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
A paper-based illustration representing arc42 with its core stages and visible working result.
Architecture
arc42
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond
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.arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes.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.Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-2 Tage30 min Setup, dann laufend1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-151-41-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone1-4
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListArchitecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment ViewRAID Log, Status Report SourceArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
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