Interactive Technology Radar¶

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About This MicroSim¶

An interactive technology radar with four adoption rings (Adopt, Trial, Assess, Hold) and four quadrants. It helps students classify technologies by maturity and reason about the architectural risk of depending on Hold-ring technologies.

How to Use¶

Click any dot to read its ring rationale and architectural-risk implications. Hover a ring name for its meaning. Use the quadrant buttons to show or hide categories.

Iframe Embed Code¶

You can add this MicroSim to any web page by adding this to your HTML:

<iframe src="https://dmccreary.github.io/atam/sims/technology-radar-explorer/main.html"
        width="100%"
        scrolling="no"></iframe>

Lesson Plan¶

Grade Level¶

Undergraduate / Professional

Duration¶

10-15 minutes

Prerequisites¶

General familiarity with common software technologies.

Bloom's Taxonomy Level¶

Analyze (L4)

Learning Objective¶

Students can classify a technology into the correct radar ring based on maturity and adoption posture, and explain the architectural risk of relying on Hold-ring technologies.

Activities¶

Exploration (5 min): Students freely interact with the MicroSim to discover its behavior.
Guided Practice (5 min): Working from the learning objective above, students answer 2-3 focused questions posed by the instructor.
Discussion (5 min): Students share observations and connect them back to ATAM concepts.

Assessment¶

Give students a technology not on the radar and ask them to place it in a ring and justify the architectural risk implications.

References¶

Bass, L., Clements, P., & Kazman, R. (2021). Software Architecture in Practice (4th ed.). Addison-Wesley.
Kazman, R., Klein, M., & Clements, P. (2000). ATAM: Method for Architecture Evaluation (CMU/SEI-2000-TR-004).