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| Criterion |  Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method) |  Business Strategy Three Horizons |  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. | Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon. | 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 | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ | 60–90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting | 3-12 | 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 | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange |
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