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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 branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
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 GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
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 goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.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.GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
20-40 min pro Story45-90 min30-60 minWochen bis Monate je Goal
Participantsdifferent
3-63-83-73-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Acceptance Criteria, Story UpdateImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsGoals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports
Tagsno overlap
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
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