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Criterion
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.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
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h30 min Setup, dann laufend45-90 min15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
5-151-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-81-3
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsRAID Log, Status Report SourceAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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