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Selected:ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)WSJF Architecture Decision Record Views and Beyond

Criterion	Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)	Agile WSJF	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Architecture Views and Beyond
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 many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.	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.	Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.
Complexitydifferent	High	High	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope	45-90 min	15-45 min	1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent	Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders	3-10	1-3	1-4
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	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	Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders	LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture

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