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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
Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
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.A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early.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
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min30-90 min20-40 min pro Story
Participantsdifferent
3-72-103-6
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsRich Picture, Problem Framing NotesAcceptance Criteria, Story Update
Tagsno overlap
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
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Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration for Soft Systems Methodology.
Systems Thinking
Soft Systems Methodology