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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 Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Paper illustration of Ontology Design Patterns with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Ontology Design Patterns
Paper illustration for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Operations
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
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.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.Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles.For a process, product, or service with noticeable failure risks, the method assesses possible failure modes in advance. It directs attention to combinations of occurrence, effect, and detectability.
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Timedifferent
3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional2-4 h1-3 h pro Pattern2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
1 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people2-81-63-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
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 checksCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixSelected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern DocumentationFMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation Actions
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ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling
RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause
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