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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture Request for Comments |  UX Research Surveys |  Decision Making DACI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 3-14 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-20 Reviewer | 50+ | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | QuantitativeResearchValidation | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment |