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| Criterion |  Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method) |  Agile Example Mapping |  Agile Three Amigos |
|---|---|---|---|
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 a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound. | When story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Preparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope | 30-60 min | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting | 3-7 | 3 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | 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 | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement |
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