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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 Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Operations
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
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Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
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Agile
Specification by Example
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.For a process, product, or service with noticeable failure risks, the method assesses possible failure modes in advance. It directs attention to combinations of occurrence, effect, and detectability.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 business rules need to become precise, it ties language, example, and test together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as an Example Table and Acceptance Tests.
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LowHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min2-6 h2-4 h60-90 min pro Feature
Participantsdifferent
3-73-102-83-6
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
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Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsFMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation ActionsCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixExample Table, Acceptance Tests
Tagsno overlap
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
AgileRequirementsExamplesBehavior-Driven Development
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