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Selected:Quality Attribute WorkshopARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Decision Rights MappingRequest for Comments
Criterion
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
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.ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement.An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional90-180 min1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung
Participantsdifferent
5-15Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-123-20 Reviewer
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsDecision Rights Matrix, AgreementRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets
Tagsno overlap
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
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