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Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
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Operations
Getting Things Done
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Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h1-2 h Setup, laufend15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
5-1511-3
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
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RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
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ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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Operations
Weekly Review
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Operations
ALPEN Method
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Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)