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| Criterion |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Growth Flywheel |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 60-120 min | 60-90 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-8 | 4-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | GrowthRetentionConversion | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |