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| Criterion |  Agile Example Mapping |  Operations Fishbone Diagram |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers. | 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. | 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 | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 30-60 min | 2-4 h | 20-40 min pro Story |
Participantsdifferent | 3-7 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions | Fishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update |
Tagsno overlap | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement | Root causeQualityOperations | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development |