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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 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 OODA Loop.
Decision Making
OODA Loop
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.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questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.In dynamic situations, decisions become outdated faster than they can be prepared. The OODA Loop holds observing, orienting, deciding, and acting together as a recurring rhythm so reaction does not slide into inertia.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLowMedium
Timedifferent
20-40 min pro Story1-4 Wochen30-60 min15-60 min je Zyklus
Participantsdifferent
3-66-30 Experten3-71-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Acceptance Criteria, Story UpdateExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsSituation Assessment, Decision Loop, Action Updates
Tagsno overlap
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
DecisionChangeLearningStrategy
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