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Selected:Quality Attribute WorkshopDesign ThinkingOutcome-Driven InnovationSoftware Architecture Canvas
| Criterion |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 4-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | InnovationPrototypeResearch | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |