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Selected:Team APIATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)Decision Framing WorkshopTrade-off Analysis
| Criterion |  Team Design Team API |  Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document. | 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 a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day initial, dann laufend | Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope | 60-120 min | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Team API Document | Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions |