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Criterion
Paper illustration for Design Studio
UX Design
Design Studio
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Purposedifferent
When several designs need to be quickly put in relation to each other, it makes ideas visible and comparable. It encourages early variants instead of long upfront debates.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 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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h15-30 min45-90 min20-40 min pro Story
Participantsdifferent
3-833-123-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Sketches, Concept Directions, Design DecisionsClarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsWorking Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadenceAcceptance Criteria, Story Update
Tagsno overlap
SketchingCollaborationIdeation
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
TeamCollaborationAgile
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
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