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| Criterion |  Agile Three Amigos |  Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) |  Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |  Agile Example Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process. | 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. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. | When a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3 | Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders | 3-8 | 3-7 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement |