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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Agile Example Mapping |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | 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. | SWOT Analysis arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats into a compact picture of the situation. It keeps internal capabilities and external influences separate before strategic options emerge from them. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 30-60 min | 20-40 min pro Story |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-7 | 3-12 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development |