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Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Four paper stations connect system purpose, quality goals, risk cards and focused investigation with a target and gap profile.
Architecture
LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews)
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
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.LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail.A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
2-81 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people5-15
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixLean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checksQuality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns
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OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
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Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Paper illustration for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Operations
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Paper illustration of Linked Open Terms with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Linked Open Terms