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Selected:Software Architecture Canvas Smoke Test ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Inception Canvas

Criterion	Architecture Software Architecture Canvas	Product Discovery Smoke Test	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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.	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	Low	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	1-2 h	1-5 Tage	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	3-10	Nutzertraffic	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Async	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes	Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note	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	ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas

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