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Criterion
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
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Purposedifferent
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.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.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min45-90 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-72-81-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping