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Criterion
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Purposedifferent
When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.When a story becomes too large for a clean flow, it breaks scope down along value and risk. It shapes the work into a form that ships earlier and is easier to verify.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min30-60 min25-40 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-122-61-51-5
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsSmaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleLearning Card with evidence and next actionCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
Tagsno overlap
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
BacklogIterationDelivery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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