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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
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
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.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend30-60 min20–45 min20-40 min pro Story
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)3-7Small cross-functional group3-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logAcceptance Criteria, Story Update
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
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