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| Criterion | ![]() Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop | ![]() Delivery Cost of Delay | ![]() Architecture Request for Comments | ![]() Facilitation Decision Jam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | 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. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 90-180 min | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 3-8 | 3-20 Reviewer | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop |



