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Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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.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.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min1-3 Tage15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
31-41-3
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, RationaleADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas