
158 The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures
Competing or contradictory drivers: • a listing of other architectural drivers whose
satisfaction conflicts with the driver in question. is can be particularly important
where the drivers for a particular system will be bounded by threshold or objective
values, because there will be trade-offs and even adjustment in one or more of these
drivers based on trade studies and related analyses.
3. Verify the potentially relevant requirements. If the members of the architecture team
have not already verified the quality of these requirements as members of requirements eval-
uation tea ...