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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
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Paper illustration of Linked Open Terms with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Linked Open Terms
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.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.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.Linked Open Terms connects terminology work with linked-data thinking and makes terminology technically connectable. Vocabulary, meanings, and references can thereby be maintained consistently.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min45-90 min2-4 hWochen bis Monate
Participantsdifferent
3-73-102-82-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsContext canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixOntology Requirements, Conceptual Model, Published Ontology, Documentation, Maintenance Plan
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Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
OntologyMethodologyAgileSemantic
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