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| Criterion |  Agile Example Mapping |  Agile Three Amigos |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. | The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 15-30 min | 45-90 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-7 | 3 | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan |
Tagsno overlap | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas |