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| Criterion |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 2-3 h | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 | 3-10 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas |