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| Criterion |  Agile Scrum |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Agile ROAM Board |  Architecture arc42 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 1-3 Tage | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1-2 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 1-4 | 3-15 | 1-4 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | ROAM Board, Owner List | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View |
Tagsno overlap | AgileIterationCadence | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication |