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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 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
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 business rules need to become precise, it ties language, example, and test together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as an Example Table and Acceptance Tests.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30–45 min15-30 min60-90 min pro Feature45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-1033-63-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
HMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea PromptsClarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsExample Table, Acceptance TestsContext canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes
Tagsno overlap
FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
AgileRequirementsExamplesBehavior-Driven Development
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
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