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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |  Agile Three Amigos |  Innovation Design Charrette |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 20-40 min pro Story | 15-30 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 3-6 | 3 | 10-50 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | Sketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation |