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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
Paper illustration for Contextual Inquiry.
UX Research
Contextual Inquiry
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
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 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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-3 Wochen15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
3-74-12 Beobachtungen3
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsField Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain PointsClarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
UX researchObservationContext
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
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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
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
Operations
8D Problem Solving