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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
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Architecture
SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method)
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
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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.SAAM helps teams judge an architecture’s suitability for selected tasks and changes. It is particularly useful for examining modifiability and comparing architecture alternatives with clear reasoning.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.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
LowHighLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 minPreparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope20-40 min pro Story15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
3-7Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting3-63
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsDomain functions mapped to components and connections, Quality attributes and evaluation criteria, Typical tasks and their effects on the architecture, Reasoned evaluation or comparison of alternativesAcceptance Criteria, Story UpdateClarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
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