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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 board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
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 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.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.The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional20-40 min initial, dann laufend2-4 h1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
1 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people3-152-83-8
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 checksROAM Board, Owner ListCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixInception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions
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ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
AlignmentArchitectureCanvas
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