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Criterion
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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
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 knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLowLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min pro Story1-4 Wochen45-90 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-66-30 Experten2-83-7
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Acceptance Criteria, Story UpdateExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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