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| Criterion |  Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | 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 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 | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 2-3 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | 3-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |