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| Criterion |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Architecture Risk Storming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | Mehrere Wochen | 45-60 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation |