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Criterion
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
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.When a domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views.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
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h2-8 h1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-155-123-20 Reviewer4-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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