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| Criterion |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Product Discovery MVP Test Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-120 min | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 45-75 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-20 Reviewer | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Test Matrix, Test Plan |
Tagsno overlap | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions |
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