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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | 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. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 1-2 h | 15-45 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | 3-8 | 1-3 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationDemandMVP | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |