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| Criterion |  Agile ROAM Board |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-60 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-15 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | ROAM Board, Owner List | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas |