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Criterion
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent
Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.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.Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures.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
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
60-90 min2-4 h2-4 h2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
4-125-152-8Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action BacklogQuality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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