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Criterion
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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.ATAM helps teams weigh architecture decisions when quality goals compete. The team considers business goals, stakeholder expectations, and technical decisions together. The evaluation shows which risks need further investigation.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowLowHigh
Timedifferent
Mehrere Wochen30 min Setup, dann laufend1-2 hSeveral meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope
Participantsdifferent
2-6 researchers plus sample1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-8Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesRAID Log, Status Report SourceInception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open QuestionsPrioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AlignmentArchitectureCanvas
ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders
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