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How Might We
Innovation
How Might We
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
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
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 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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30–45 min15-30 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1-1033-7
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
HMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea PromptsClarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette