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Criterion
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Four paper stations connect system purpose, quality goals, risk cards and focused investigation with a target and gap profile.
Architecture
LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews)
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.When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail.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
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min pro Story20-40 min initial, dann laufend3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
3-63-151 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people3
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Acceptance Criteria, Story UpdateROAM Board, Owner ListLean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checksClarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
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