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Criterion
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Purposedifferent
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.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 stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.
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Timedifferent
2-4 hSeveral meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope60-90 min30 min Setup, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
2-8Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders3-61-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixPrioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigationsSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassRAID Log, Status Report Source
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OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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