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| Criterion |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Architecture arc42 |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-3 Tage | 1-2 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication |
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