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Selected:Architecture Inception Canvas ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Alignment Mapping Product Vision Board

Criterion	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Facilitation Alignment Mapping	Product Strategy Product Vision Board
Purposedifferent	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.	When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.	When a product needs a shared direction, it connects target audience, benefit, and business picture in a clear vision. It makes the envisioned future legible for the team.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	1-2 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-2 h	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	3-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	4-12	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions	Product Vision Board, Vision Statement, Assumptions and Validation Questions
Tagsno overlap	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation	VisionCanvasStrategyAlignment

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