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| Criterion | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions | ![]() Product Strategy DIBB | ![]() Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop | ![]() Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. | DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report. | 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1-2 h | 20-40 min pro Story | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix | DIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic | StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |



