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Criterion
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Purposedifferent
When a story becomes too large for a clean flow, it breaks scope down along value and risk. It shapes the work into a form that ships earlier and is easier to verify.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.When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min30-90 min45-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-63-122-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsAssumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking
Tagsno overlap
BacklogIterationDelivery
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation
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Paper illustration of Riskiest Assumption Test with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Riskiest Assumption Test
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing