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Criterion
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Paper illustration for Time Blocking
Operations
Time Blocking
A paper-based illustration representing C4 Model with its core stages and visible working result.
Architecture
C4 Model
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
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.With a calendar that grows on request, the method makes available time explicit again. It combines appointments, focus work, and buffer into a more realistic day structure.The C4 Model makes a system legible across several resolution levels, from context down to code. It suits situations where different audiences need to understand the same architecture from different altitudes.When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h15-30 min Planung, laufend1-4 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-1511-52-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsBlocked Calendar, Capacity View, Focus PlanContext Diagram, Container Diagram, Component DiagramCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
PlanningTime managementFocus
ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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