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| Criterion |  Agile NoEstimates |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Engineering Kanban |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules. | 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. | When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | laufend | 1-2 h | Ongoing | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-10 | 2-12 | 5-30 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing Rules | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationForecastingFlow | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | FlowVisual managementDelivery | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment |