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Criterion
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
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
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
Purposedifferent
When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.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 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.When research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage20-40 min pro Story30-60 min45–90 min
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team3-63-73-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesAcceptance Criteria, Story UpdateExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsTheme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause
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