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| Criterion |  Agile Scrum |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |  Knowledge Modeling IBIS |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries. | 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. | IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 20-40 min pro Story | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 3-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update | Issue Map, Positions, Argument Notes |
Tagsno overlap | AgileIterationCadence | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development | RationaleKnowledgeDecision |
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