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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy OKRs | ![]() Architecture Software Architecture Canvas | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning | ![]() Facilitation Consensus Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When strategic direction needs to become measurable, it connects ambition with checkable results. It makes goals connectable to focus and review. | 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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | 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 | 1-2 h Setup | 1-2 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-20 | 3-10 | 3-10 | 5-30 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | OKR set, Measurement plan, Review cadence | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas |
Tagsno overlap | GoalsAlignmentOutcomesMeasurement | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment |



