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Paper illustration for Contextual Inquiry.
UX Research
Contextual Inquiry
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
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
When work processes are known only from accounts and the real context stays hidden, Contextual Inquiry makes behavior at the workplace visible. Observation and follow-up questions together show how people actually work, get interrupted, and improvise.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 collaboration needs more than implicit expectations, it lays out shared ground rules openly. It creates reliability for conduct, availability, and decision paths.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
1-3 Wochen15-30 min45-90 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
4-12 Beobachtungen33-123-7
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Field Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain PointsClarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsWorking Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadenceExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
UX researchObservationContext
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
TeamCollaborationAgile
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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