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Selected:Architecture Inception Canvas5-Minuten VC-CheckSoftware Architecture CanvasARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
| Criterion |  Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 5-15 min | 1-2 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 1-5 | 3-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas | StartupValidationCompetition | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |