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| Criterion |  Team Design Team API |  Architecture arc42 |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document. | 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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day initial, dann laufend | 1-2 Tage | 45-120 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 1-4 | 2-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team API Document | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions |