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Criterion
Paper illustration for Story Points.
Agile
Story Points
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Purposedifferent
When teams want to rate complexity rather than hours, it creates a shared, relative scale. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Point Estimates, Reference Stories, and Velocity Data.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 many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
laufend, 1-5 min je Item20-40 min pro Story30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-93-63-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity DataAcceptance Criteria, Story UpdateAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
Tagsno overlap
EstimationAgileMeasurement
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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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 of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example