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| Criterion |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | 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. | 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 | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-120 min | 30-90 min | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-20 Reviewer | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan |
Tagsno overlap | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions |