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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 a four-quadrant grid with tasks sorted by importance and urgency and translated into actions.
Decision Making
Eisenhower Matrix
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
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.It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped.Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional15-30 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-15Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-64-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsEisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation NotesAnnotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog
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RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
PrioritizationFocusTasks
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
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