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Criterion	Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method)	Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes	Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping
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 several teams collaborate repeatedly, it describes the right interaction mode for each interface between them. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as an interaction heat map and pairwise agreements.	When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
Complexitydifferent	High	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	Preparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope	Half day	60–90 min
Participantsdifferent	Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting	Team-Leads plus Architecture	2-8
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	Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair	Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality	TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization	StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange