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| Criterion |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | Mehrere Wochen | 15-45 min | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-3 | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | QuantitativeResearchValidation |