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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Purposedifferent
When a service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit.ATAM helps teams weigh architecture decisions when quality goals compete. The team considers business goals, stakeholder expectations, and technical decisions together. The evaluation shows which risks need further investigation.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighHighLowLow
Timedifferent
0.5-2 TageSeveral meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope30 min Setup, dann laufend15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
6-12Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone1-3
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapPrioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigationsRAID Log, Status Report SourceADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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