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Business Strategy
VMGS
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
Purposedifferent
VMGS arranges vision, mission, goals, and strategies into a clear guiding logic. Direction, purpose, and priorities are connected so teams can decide more coherently.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.
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Timedifferent
2-4 h1-4 Wochen1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-126-30 Experten3-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop
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Vision Statement, Mission Statement, Goals, StrategiesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes
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VisionGoalsStrategy
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
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Paper illustration of Product Vision Board with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Product Vision Board
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
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Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas