all documentation to the stakeholders. These steps are separated in two phases: Phase 1 consists of steps 1-6 and after this phase, the state and context of the project, the driving architectural requirements and the state of the architectural documentation are known. Phase 2 consists of steps 7-9 and finishes the evaluation See also ilities Architecture-centric design method Multi-criteria decision analysis ARID Software architecture analysis method, precursor to architecture tradeoff analysis method Architectural analytics References External links Reduce Risk with Architecture Evaluation ATAM: Method for Architecture Evaluation Software architecture Enterprise architecture