Stakeholders

Prepares stakeholders, core messages, and artifacts so architecture communication connects deliberately.

Core question: What system information must these recipients understand, examine or communicate onward?

• 60-120 min
• 2-8

Connects several views of large systems and keeps cross-view information for the overall picture.

Core question: Which views serve these stakeholders, and what must be documented beyond each view?

• 1-3 Tage
• 1-4

Arranges influence, interest, and relationships into a working map that makes engagement and risks transparent.

Core question: Which actor groups are affected or influential here, what assumptions apply, and how will they participate?

• 60–90 min
• 2-8

Sharpens goal, core message, and arc of tension so a narrative leads clearly to action or decision.

Core question: What should this audience understand from the story and decide next?

• 45-120 min
• 1-6

Defines audiences, channels, frequencies, and owners so relevant information reliably gets through.

Core question: Who needs which information when, from whom and through which feedback channel?

• 45-90 min
• 2-6

Surfaces stakeholder expectations, clusters conflicts, and turns them into concrete agreements.

Core question: Which expectations, commitments, and observable signals must be clarified at this interface?

• 45-90 min
• 3-12

Makes goals, concerns, and open gaps visible so clarification steps can be planned deliberately.

Core question: Which statements are shared, where do goals or assumptions diverge, and what clarification follows?

• 1-2 h
• 4-12

Sharpens an ambiguous problem situation through perspectives, transformation, and boundaries up to a root definition.

Core question: Which purposeful transformation makes sense under which worldview, who performs it, who experiences consequences, who can stop it, and which constraints apply?

• 45-90 min
• 3-8

Moves scope, sequence, and delivery flow toward a concrete result through "create a table for Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies", "carry over initial entries from discovery and kickoff", and "archive resolved items instead of deleting them".

Core question: Which open Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies threaten the next commitment, and who will do what by when?

• 30 min Setup, dann laufend
• 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone

Moves group input, selection, and decision toward a concrete result through "collect stakeholders individually and by group", "explain power and interest", and "derive a strategy for each quadrant".

Core question: Who can affect the specific outcome, who is affected by it, and what form of engagement is appropriate?

• 30-60 min
• 2-8

Moves group input, selection, and decision toward a concrete result through "prepare the stakeholder list", "define power, legitimacy, and urgency", and "derive strategy by class".

Core question: Which stakeholder claims possess power, legitimacy, and urgency in this decision, and what attention follows?

• 60-90 min
• 3-6

Examines how architecture decisions support important quality goals and makes risks and trade-offs visible.

Core question: How does the architecture support our most important quality goals, and where do risks or trade-offs arise?

• Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope
• Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders