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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning | ![]() Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas | ![]() Architecture Views and Beyond |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. | Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 60-120 min | 1-3 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 1-4 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture |
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