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Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration with architecture components and concrete change tasks for comparison.
Architecture
SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method)
Purposedifferent
DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.SAAM helps teams judge an architecture’s suitability for selected tasks and changes. It is particularly useful for examining modifiability and comparing architecture alternatives with clear reasoning.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-2 hPreparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope
Participantsdifferent
2-8Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
DIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning reportDomain functions mapped to components and connections, Quality attributes and evaluation criteria, Typical tasks and their effects on the architecture, Reasoned evaluation or comparison of alternatives
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StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality
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Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)