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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Purposedifferent
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 work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.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
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min20-40 min initial, dann laufend20-40 min pro Story
Participantsdifferent
3-103-153-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesROAM Board, Owner ListAcceptance Criteria, Story Update
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
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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
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Paper illustration of Product Vision Board with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Product Vision Board