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| Criterion |  Team Design Team API |  Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Facilitation Expectation Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question. | When roles, interfaces, or projects fail because of differing expectations, Expectation Mapping surfaces these differences. It shows what each side takes for granted and where the pictures diverge. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Half day initial, dann laufend | Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope | 1-3 Tage | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders | 1-4 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
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 | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Expectation Map, Alignment Notes, Agreements |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | AlignmentStakeholdersTeam |