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Criterion
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Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
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Facilitation
Alignment 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.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
20-40 min pro Story60–90 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-62-84-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Acceptance Criteria, Story UpdateStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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Agile
Example Mapping
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Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example