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Criterion
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
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
ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.When story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process.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 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
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional15-30 min20-40 min pro Story30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation33-63-7
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsClarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsAcceptance Criteria, Story UpdateExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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