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Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Purposedifferent
The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.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.
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LowMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 h2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-102-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality AttributesCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix
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CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
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Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop