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Criterion
How Might We
Innovation
How Might We
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Purposedifferent
With a stuck problem carrying many implicit assumptions, the method translates observations into open, workable questions. It sharpens the problem frame without pre-thinking the solution, turning frustration or fuzziness into a search space with clear direction.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 many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on.
Complexitysame
LowLowLowLow
Timedifferent
30–45 min15-30 min10-20 min15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
1-1034-100+3-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
HMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea PromptsClarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesIdea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list
Tagsno overlap
FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
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