Project Lionheart: The Story So Far…

During a user experience workshop facilitated by our product manager, you discover dozens of new features. You add these features to the product backlog and make a note in the few functional requirements that seem to have architectural significance. You also jot down several potential constraints to verify with stakeholders.

A few days after the requirements workshop, you facilitate a mini-quality attribute workshop with several stakeholders. During the workshop, you elicit and prioritize nearly two dozen quality attribute scenarios. You don’t formally record all the concerns raised during the workshop, but you collaborate with participants to refine the top seven highest-priority scenarios.

Up to this point, our primary focus was to understand the problem. We made several artifacts so we could share what we know about the problem with our stakeholders. You uncover a lot in a few short days on site. Looking at the team’s list of open questions, you think we have enough information to embrace the explore mindset and start choosing structures for the architecture.