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| Criterion |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Product Discovery Context 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. | A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties. | When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 2-4 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 5-15 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas |
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