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Selected:ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)Outcome-Driven InnovationARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Surveys
| Criterion |  Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | ATAM helps teams weigh architecture decisions when quality goals compete. The team considers business goals, stakeholder expectations, and technical decisions together. The evaluation shows which risks need further investigation. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | 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 a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope | Mehrere Wochen | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders | 2-6 researchers plus sample | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | QuantitativeResearchValidation |