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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 of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper fishbone diagram with a measurable effect at the head and six labeled cause branches.
Operations
Fishbone Diagram
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min30 min Setup, dann laufend30-60 min20-40 min pro Story
Participantsdifferent
3-71-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-83-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceFishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation BacklogAcceptance Criteria, Story Update
Tagsno overlap
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
Root causeQualityOperations
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
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