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Criterion
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
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
MediumHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h90-180 min1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-153-83-20 Reviewer4-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsCoD Table, Prioritization SequenceRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
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RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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