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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 Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h30 min Setup, dann laufend1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung
Participantsdifferent
5-151-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-20 Reviewer
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsRAID Log, Status Report SourceRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets
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RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
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Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
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Risk Storming
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing