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Selected:ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)Design Sprint5-Minuten VC-CheckARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
| Criterion |  Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope | 4-5 Tage | 5-15 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders | 5-8 | 1-5 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | StartupValidationCompetition | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |