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Criterion	Agile WSJF	Delivery Cost of Delay	Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas	Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Purposedifferent	When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.	Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.	The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.	ATAM helps teams weigh architecture decisions when quality goals compete. The team considers business goals, stakeholder expectations, and technical decisions together. The evaluation shows which risks need further investigation.
Complexitydifferent	High	High	Medium	High
Timedifferent	45-90 min	90-180 min	60-120 min	Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope
Participantsdifferent	3-10	3-8	2-8	Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions	CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence	Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan	Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations
Tagsno overlap	LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization	PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision	ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas	ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders

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