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Criterion	Architecture Software Architecture Canvas	Product Discovery Concierge MVP	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas
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.	When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution.	ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	1-2 h	1-4 Wochen	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	3-10	3-10 Kunden	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes	Concierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap	CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop	MVPValidationServiceDiscovery	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas

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