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Criterion
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
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 of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
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 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.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
20-40 min pro Story30-60 min15-45 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-63-71-35-15
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Acceptance Criteria, Story UpdateExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsADR File, Decision Log, RationaleQuality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns
Tagsno overlap
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
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