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Criterion
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
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
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
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 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.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowHigh
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend30-60 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)3-73-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Paper illustration for Intervention Mapping.
Systems Thinking
Intervention Mapping