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Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Paper illustration for Change Analysis.
Operations
Change Analysis
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.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.For a deviation after a change, the method isolates the influence of the altered condition. It narrows down which differences are relevant and which are just accompanying noise.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h2-4 h45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
5-153-82-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved InjectionsChange Matrix, Cause Hypotheses, Validation Questions, Action List
Tagsno overlap
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
ChangeRoot causeTroubleshootingComparison
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SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
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Systems Thinking
Iceberg Model