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Criterion
Game Day workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Game Day
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Purposedifferent
In preparing for rare incidents, the method tests response capability under controlled conditions. It shows where assumptions about stability, roles, and recovery are too optimistic.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.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighHighLowLow
Timedifferent
Halber TagSeveral meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope15-45 min30 min Setup, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
5-20Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders1-31-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Simulation Notes, Gaps List, Updated RunbooksPrioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigationsADR File, Decision Log, RationaleRAID Log, Status Report Source
Tagsno overlap
ResilienceOperationsIncident
ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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