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| Criterion | ![]() Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop | ![]() Agile WSJF | ![]() Facilitation Nominal Group Technique | ![]() Facilitation Consensus Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 45-90 min | 60-120 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 3-10 | 5-12 | 5-30 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment |



