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| Criterion | ![]() Agile ROAM Board | ![]() Innovation Design Thinking | ![]() Architecture Software Architecture 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. | 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. | 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 | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-15 | 4-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | ROAM Board, Owner List | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tagsno overlap | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | InnovationPrototypeResearch | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |
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