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Criterion	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping	Architecture Software Architecture Canvas
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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	1-2 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-60 min	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	3-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	3-10
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop
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	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking	Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes
Tagsno overlap	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation	CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop

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