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Criterion
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
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
An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.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.Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures.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
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
15-45 min20-40 min pro Story2-4 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1-33-62-83-7
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
ADR File, Decision Log, RationaleAcceptance Criteria, Story UpdateCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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