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| Criterion |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 2-4 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |
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