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Criterion	Product Strategy Product Canvas	Architecture Software Architecture Canvas	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas
Purposedifferent	When product goal and feature scope don't yet fit cleanly together, it creates a shared working picture. It connects need, core features, and assumptions into a solid starting point.	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.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	1-2 h	1-2 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	2-8	3-10	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Product Canvas, Product Assumptions, Scope Notes	Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap	CanvasDiscoveryScope	CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas

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