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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
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond
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.Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.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
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-3 Tage20-40 min pro Story
Participantsdifferent
3-71-43-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, RationaleAcceptance Criteria, Story Update
Tagsno overlap
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
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Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
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Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
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Architecture
Architecture Decision Record