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| Criterion |  Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method) |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Sprint |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Preparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope | Mehrere Wochen | 4-5 Tage | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 5-8 | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | 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 | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | QuantitativeResearchValidation |