Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

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ATAM stands for Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method.

It was developed by the Software Engineering Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University. Its purpose is to help choose a suitable architecture for a software system by discovering tradeoffs and sensitivity points.

A short definition: ATAM is a risk mitigation method that can occur early in the software development life cycle when it is relatively inexpensive to change architectural decisions.

[edit] External links

• http://www.sei.cmu.edu/architecture/ata_method.html
• http://www.sei.cmu.edu/ata/ata_init2.html