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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 Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
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.When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.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
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-60 minHalf day initial, dann laufend30-90 min20-40 min pro Story
Participantsdifferent
3-7Ein Team plus Stakeholder3-123-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsTeam API DocumentAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsAcceptance Criteria, Story Update
Tagsno overlap
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
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