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| Criterion |  Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method) |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Growth A/B Testing |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | Preparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope | 30-60 min | 1-4 Wochen | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting | 1-5 | 1-6 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | 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 | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |