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Selected:ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)Start Stop Continue Sailboat Retrospective Starfish Retrospective

Criterion	Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)	Agile Start Stop Continue	Agile Sailboat Retrospective	Agile Starfish Retrospective
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 a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood.	When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture.	When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued.
Complexitydifferent	High	Low	Low	Low
Timedifferent	Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope	30-60 min	45-90 min	45-90 min
Participantsdifferent	Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders	3-12	4-12	4-12
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations	Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions	Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions	Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders	RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection	RetrospectiveTeamImprovement	RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam

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