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| Criterion |  Innovation How Might We |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Innovation Starbursting |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With a stuck problem carrying many implicit assumptions, the method translates observations into open, workable questions. It sharpens the problem frame without pre-thinking the solution, turning frustration or fuzziness into a search space with clear direction. | 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. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30–45 min | 2-4 h | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 5-15 | 3-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | HMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea Prompts | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes |
Tagsno overlap | FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas |