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Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Purposedifferent
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.The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage1-2 h60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-43-103-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, RationaleArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality AttributesSalience Diagram, Strategy per Class
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DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
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Alignment Mapping
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas