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Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h30 min Setup, dann laufend15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone1-3
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixRAID Log, Status Report SourceADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
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RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
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