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| Criterion |  Innovation Brainwriting |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |  Agile Three Amigos |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on. | 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 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 topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | 20-40 min pro Story | 15-30 min | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-6 | 3 | 1-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation |