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Criterion
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Purposedifferent
When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.When a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
10-20 min30-60 min20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
4-100+3-74-10
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsIdea List, Cluster, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
A paper-based illustration representing Brainstorming with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Brainstorming
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
Paper illustration for Reverse Brainstorming
Innovation
Reverse Brainstorming