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Criterion
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
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.When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h1-5 Tage45-90 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
5-15Nutzertraffic2-8Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteAnsoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk NotesPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
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RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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