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| Criterion |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties. | When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 45-90 min | 45-60 min | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |