# Competing Attributes

> The degree to which improving one quality attribute forces a trade-off against another.

Record: `lexicon:competing-attributes`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Evolution Principles](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/evolution-principles.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-competing-attributes

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Clean Boundary Design](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/clean-boundary-design.md) and before [Consequences](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/consequences.md).

## Category

- [Architecture Review Evolution Governance](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/architecture-review-evolution-governance.md)

## In tension with

- [Quality Attributes](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/quality-attributes.md)
- [Quality Attributes / Competing Attributes](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/competing-attributes-quality-attributes.md)

## Linked from

- [Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-architecture-review-evolution-governance-artifacts.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)