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| Criterion |  Innovation Starbursting |  Architecture Request for Comments |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-20 Reviewer |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance |
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