Architecture & Technical Design · master area
Ilities Selection
Pick one ility to chase this cycle. Name the rest as deferred. A TDB that invests in five ilities is a TDB that invests in none.
Owners: Tech Lead, PO Phase it lives in: What We Shape Lives in: the Technical Design Brief; revisited each cycle.
Where it lives in the chain
- What We Shape · Ilities Selection — the canon
- Before We Build · Technical Design Brief — where ility selection is signed
How to do this
- Practice — Writing Technical Design Briefs · Step 3
- Template — Technical Design Brief skeleton
- Skill path — Tech Lead foundations · Step 3
Related crafts
- Architecture Decision Records — where ility trade-offs become precedent
- UX/Product Ilities — the design-side sibling
- Technical Design Brief — the cycle artefact holding the ility selection