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.
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