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Paper illustration for Responsibility Poker.
Facilitation
Responsibility Poker
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Purposedifferent
When it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences.ATAM helps teams weigh architecture decisions when quality goals compete. The team considers business goals, stakeholder expectations, and technical decisions together. The evaluation shows which risks need further investigation.When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
45-90 minSeveral meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-10Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders3-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Responsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open QuestionsPrioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigationsSalience Diagram, Strategy per Class
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RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation
ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Paper illustration for Expectation Mapping.
Facilitation
Expectation Mapping