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Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Paper illustration for ABC Analysis
Operations
ABC Analysis
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Purposedifferent
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.With many similar objects of differing economic significance, the method prioritizes effort by effect. It separates what needs regular steering from what rarely needs attention.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h30-60 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-151-52-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsABC Classification, Focus Rules, Control ListAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
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RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
PrioritizationOperationsPortfolio
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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Architecture
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Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
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