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| Criterion |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |  Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) |  Agile ROAM Board |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. | 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 work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders | 3-15 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations | ROAM Board, Owner List | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides |
Tagsno overlap | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions |