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Criterion
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
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.IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.When story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min pro Story1-3 h15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
3-62-83
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Acceptance Criteria, Story UpdateIssue Map, Positions, Argument NotesClarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
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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 Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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Agile
Working Agreements