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| Criterion |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Product Strategy ICE Scoring |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 ideas need sorting quickly, it condenses impact, confidence, and effort into one compact score. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as an ICE table and top-ideas list. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 30-60 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | ICE Table, Top Idea List | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | PrioritizationScoringGrowthDecision | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |