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Criterion
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
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 work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend20-40 min initial, dann laufend15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)3-153
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalROAM Board, Owner ListClarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
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 Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Operations
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis