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Criterion
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Paper illustration of Ontology Design Patterns with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Ontology Design Patterns
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Purposedifferent
An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.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.Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles.Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
15-45 min2-4 h1-3 h pro Pattern2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1-35-151-62-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
ADR File, Decision Log, RationaleQuality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsSelected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern DocumentationCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
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