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Selected:Quality Attribute WorkshopGAP AnalysisARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Impact Mapping
| Criterion |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Business Strategy GAP Analysis |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing. | 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. | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1-3 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 2-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk Notes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | StrategyAnalysisPlanning | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |