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Criterion	Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method)	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping	Product Discovery Test Card	Decision Making Assumption Surfacing
Purposedifferent	SAAM helps teams judge an architecture’s suitability for selected tasks and changes. It is particularly useful for examining modifiability and comparing architecture alternatives with clear reasoning.	When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.	The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.	Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.
Complexitydifferent	High	Medium	Low	Low
Timedifferent	Preparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope	45-60 min	20-35 min	45-90 min
Participantsdifferent	Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting	2-8	1-5	2-8
Formatsame	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Domain functions mapped to components and connections, Quality attributes and evaluation criteria, Typical tasks and their effects on the architecture, Reasoned evaluation or comparison of alternatives	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking	Test Card with a pre-set threshold	Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation	ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis	AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery

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