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Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond
Purposedifferent
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.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-120 min1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
2-81-4
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale
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TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
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Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
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Architecture Decision Record