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Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
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.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.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h2-4 h60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-85-152-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixQuality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan
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RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
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Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
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Software Architecture Canvas
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)