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Selected:Outcome-Driven InnovationContext CanvasQuality Attribute WorkshopSoftware Architecture Canvas
| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Product Discovery Context Canvas | ![]() Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop | ![]() 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. | 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. | 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. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min | 2-4 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 | 5-15 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |



