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Criterion
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
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 story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process.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
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h15-30 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
5-153Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsClarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
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RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)