Tutorials
After installing the add-in, it is time to do some business. On this site, you will find seven short tutorial videos that walk you through the main functionality of Decision Architect. If you are still unsure how to use the tool, please do
not hesitate to ask your question in the "User: Troubleshooting" discussion.
Tutorial 1 - Introduction
This tutorial provides you with an overview of Decision Architect. The tutorial covers the following topics:
- How to verify if the add-in is installed
- How to create a new project from scratch or from a template.
- A general overview of the add-in.
Tutorial 2 - Decision Relationship Viewpoint
This tutorial describes the Decision Relationship Viewpoint. What you will learn from this tutorial is:
- How to create the relationship viewpoint
- How to create different kinds of decisions (e.g. ideas, alternatives)
- How to define relationships between decisions
Tutorial 3 - Stakeholder Involvement Viewpoint
This tutorial describes the Stakeholder Involvement Viewpoint. What you will learn from this tutorial is:
- How to create the stakeholder involvement viewpoint
- How to describe the relation between the stakeholders and the decisions
Tutorial 4 - Decision Chronology Viewpoint
This tutorial describes the Decision Chronology Viewpoint.
What you will learn from this tutorial is:
- How to create the chronology viewpoint
- How to automatically generate the chronology viewpoint
- How to add milestones to the viewpoint
Tutorial 5 - Decision Forces Viewpoint
This tutorial describes the Decision Forces Viewpoint. What you will learn from this tutorial is:
- How to create the decision-forces viewpoint
- How to add decisions and forces to the viewpoint
Tutorial 6 - Decision Detail Viewpoint
This tutorial describes the Decision Detail Viewpoint. What you will learn from this tutorial is:
- How to use the decision detail viewpoint
- The functionality of the viewpoint are described
Tutorial 7 - Tracing and Reporting
This tutorial describes the tracing and reporting feature. What you will learn from this tutorial is:
- How to trace new and existing decisions
- How to report viewpoints in different formats
Articles
- van Heesch, U.; Avgeriou, P.; Hilliard, R., "Forces on Architecture Decisions - A Viewpoint," Software Architecture (WICSA) and
European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), 2012 Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on , vol., no., pp.101,110, 20-24 Aug. 2012
- Christian Manteuffel, Dan Tofan, Heiko Koziolek, Thomas Goldschmidt, and Paris Avgeriou. Industrial Implementation of a Documentation Framework for Architectural Decisions. In Proceedings
of the 11th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA). IEEE Computer Society, pages 225–234, 2014. Best Paper Award.
- U. van Heesch, P. Avgeriou, and R. Hilliard. 2012. A documentation framework for architecture decisions. J. Syst. Softw. 85, 4 (April 2012), 795-820