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| Criterion |  UX Research Surveys |  Operations Change Analysis |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | For a deviation after a change, the method isolates the influence of the altered condition. It narrows down which differences are relevant and which are just accompanying noise. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | SAAM helps teams judge an architecture’s suitability for selected tasks and changes. It is particularly useful for examining modifiability and comparing architecture alternatives with clear reasoning. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | 3-14 Tage | 45-120 min | Mehrere Wochen | Preparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope |
Participantsdifferent | 50+ | 2-6 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Change Matrix, Cause Hypotheses, Validation Questions, Action List | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Domain functions mapped to components and connections, Quality attributes and evaluation criteria, Typical tasks and their effects on the architecture, Reasoned evaluation or comparison of alternatives |
Tagsno overlap | QuantitativeResearchValidation | ChangeRoot causeTroubleshootingComparison | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality |