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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |  Innovation Brainwriting |  Agile Three Amigos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 20-40 min pro Story | 15-30 min | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 3-6 | 3-12 | 3 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement |