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| Criterion | ![]() Decision Making Radar | ![]() Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop | ![]() Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis | ![]() Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When capabilities, maturity levels, or market positions need to be compared across several dimensions, overview is easily lost. Radar brings different characteristics into a shared picture and shows patterns faster than tables do. | 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. | PESTLE Analysis makes political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental influences visible. The environment of an initiative is thereby read systematically instead of through isolated trends. | SWOT Analysis arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats into a compact picture of the situation. It keeps internal capabilities and external influences separate before strategic options emerge from them. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 2-4 h | 1-3 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 5-15 | 2-10 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Radar Map, Capability Scores, Action Areas | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list |
Tagsno overlap | AssessmentPortfolioCapability | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | StrategyMarketAnalysis | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning |



