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