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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
Paper fishbone diagram with a measurable effect at the head and six labeled cause branches.
Operations
Fishbone Diagram
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.When a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers.
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Timedifferent
2-4 h2-4 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-85-152-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixQuality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsFishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog
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RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
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Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
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8D Problem Solving
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
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ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
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