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| Criterion |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Agile Example Mapping |  Agile Three Amigos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | 3-7 | 3 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | FlowMeasurementConstraints | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement |