Discover Quality Requirements with the Mini-QAW
Thijmen de Gooijer · 2017
Good quality requirements help you to make the right architectural decisionsbut collecting your requirements is not always easy. The Quality AttributeWorkshop (QAW) helps teams effectively gather requirements but can be costlyand cumbersome to organize. The mini-QAW is a short (a few hours to a full day)workshop designed for inexperienced facilitators and a great fit for teamspracticing Agile methods. Variants of the mini-QAW exist for both face-to-faceand remote collaboration. The mini-QAW method has been used successfully byseveral groups throughout the world. It is finding its place as a standard toolamong many software architects. During this session we will walk participantsthrough a mini-QAW simulation. By the end of the session participants will havelearned about and applied some of the core mini-QAW activities includingscenario brainstorming using a "system properties web", creating stakeholderempathy maps, and visual voting. The mini-QAW combines these activities with atuned agenda (compared to the traditional QAW) to create a fast, effective, andfun workshop many teams can easily adopt and succeed with. By the end of thesession participants will have gained first-hand experience facilitating andparticipating in the workshop that will let them use the method with theirteams back home.