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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. | A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 2-4 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-10 | 5-15 | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |