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Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
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.Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path.Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.
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Timedifferent
2-4 h0.5-2 Tage60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-154-124-12
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsScenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsAnnotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog
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RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
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