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Criterion
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
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.The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design.Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scopeMultiple workshops over several weeks60-90 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders2-84-121-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigationsHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics checkAnnotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action BacklogExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders
GrowthBehaviorRetention
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
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