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Criterion
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Purposedifferent
When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.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.A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage15-45 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team1-35-15
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesADR File, Decision Log, RationaleQuality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
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Empathy Mapping
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Empathy Mapping
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Architecture
Request for Comments
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Risk Storming