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Criterion
Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond
Purposedifferent
With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work.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.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.Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing15-45 min30 min Setup, dann laufend1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
1-201-31-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone1-4
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesADR File, Decision Log, RationaleRAID Log, Status Report SourceArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
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