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| Criterion |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a story needs clear checkpoints before implementation, it sharpens expectation and scope together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Acceptance Criteria and a Story Update. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min pro Story | 45-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-6 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |
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