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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Architecture arc42 |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-3 Tage | 1-2 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication |
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