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| Criterion |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Business Strategy GAP Analysis |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing. | PESTLE Analysis makes political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental influences visible. The environment of an initiative is thereby read systematically instead of through isolated trends. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-3 h | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk Notes | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | StrategyAnalysisPlanning | StrategyMarketAnalysis |