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| Criterion |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |  Agile Scrum |  Agile Example Mapping |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries. | 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. | When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min pro Story | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-6 | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 3-7 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes |
Tagsno overlap | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development | AgileIterationCadence | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas |