Purpose: Follow up. This phase is conducted after the conclusion of the ATAM evaluation.
Phase 3 Step 1: Produce the Final Report
Purpose: To write the final report.
Evaluators will write the final report that summarizes the entire ATAM evaluation.
Phase 3 Step 2: Hold the Post Mortem Meeting
Team members fill out
- Evaluation team post-exercise survey
- Method improvement survey
- Evaluation team post-exercise effort survey
Team leader arranges and facilitates meeting and
- Collects process observer’s report
- Collects effort data
Phase 3 Step 3: Build Portfolio and Update Artifact Repository
Six months after the evaluation the team leader arranges for the customer to complete the long-term benefit survey.
Conclusion
ATAM is a stakeholder-oriented cross-functional team facilitated architectural review process that results in Risk Themes. Founded on Quality Attributes, Tradeoffs, Sensitivity Points and Risks this process is a proven repeatable method of evaluating software architectures. This process and it’s templates should be customized.
