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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
How Might We
Innovation
How Might We
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.With a stuck problem carrying many implicit assumptions, the method translates observations into open, workable questions. It sharpens the problem frame without pre-thinking the solution, turning frustration or fuzziness into a search space with clear direction.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min45-90 min30–45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-73-101-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsContext canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesHMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea Prompts
Tagsno overlap
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All