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Criterion
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
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.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.An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale.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
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min pro Story2-4 h1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-65-153-20 Reviewer3-7
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Acceptance Criteria, Story UpdateQuality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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