Architecture Characteristics Worksheet

System/Project:
Architect/Team: Date:

Candidate Architecture Characteristics Top 3 Driving Characteristics Implicit Characteristics

performance security deployability 1. feasibility

responsiveness recoverability workflow 2. security

availability interoperability abstraction 3. reliability

fault tolerance concurrency cost 4.

testability adaptability simplicity 5. Others Considered

extensibility scalability elasticity 6.

agility modularity configurability 7.

reliability data integrity integration Instructions

• Identify no more than 7 driving characteristics.
• Pick the top 3 characteristics (in any order).
others: • Implicit characteristics can become driving characteristics if
they are deemed structural concerns.
• Add additional characteristics identified that weren’t deemed
as important as the list of 7 to the Others Considered list.

Created by Mark Richards, DeveloperToArchitect.com