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Selected:Outcome-Driven InnovationArchitecture Inception CanvasROAM BoardSoftware Architecture Canvas
| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas | ![]() Agile ROAM Board | ![]() Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails. | When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 3-15 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions | ROAM Board, Owner List | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |



