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| Criterion |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |  Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method) |  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. | SAAM helps teams judge an architecture’s suitability for selected tasks and changes. It is particularly useful for examining modifiability and comparing architecture alternatives with clear reasoning. | 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 | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min pro Story | Preparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-6 | Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting | 3 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update | Domain functions mapped to components and connections, Quality attributes and evaluation criteria, Typical tasks and their effects on the architecture, Reasoned evaluation or comparison of alternatives | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development | ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement |
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