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Criterion
Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Paper illustration with architecture components and concrete change tasks for comparison.
Architecture
SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Change Analysis.
Operations
Change Analysis
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.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighHighMedium
Timedifferent
3-14 TageMehrere WochenPreparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
50+2-6 researchers plus sampleArchitecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting2-6
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Survey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesDomain functions mapped to components and connections, Quality attributes and evaluation criteria, Typical tasks and their effects on the architecture, Reasoned evaluation or comparison of alternativesChange Matrix, Cause Hypotheses, Validation Questions, Action List
Tagsno overlap
QuantitativeResearchValidation
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality
ChangeRoot causeTroubleshootingComparison
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