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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Context Canvas | ![]() Architecture Software Architecture Canvas | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-2 h | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix |
Tagsno overlap | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic |
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