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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | 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. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 1-2 h | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 3-10 | 4-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity |
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