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Criterion
Four paper stations connect system purpose, quality goals, risk cards and focused investigation with a target and gap profile.
Architecture
LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews)
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Purposedifferent
LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail.When a story needs clear checkpoints before implementation, it sharpens expectation and scope together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Acceptance Criteria and a Story Update.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional20-40 min pro Story2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people3-62-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Lean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checksAcceptance Criteria, Story UpdateCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
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Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
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Knowledge Modeling
Linked Open Terms
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example