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Criterion
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
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.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.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
30-60 min45-90 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-62-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
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BacklogIterationDelivery
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB