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| Criterion |  Agile Story Splitting |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Agile Affinity Estimation |  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. | 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. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 30-90 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 2-8 | 3-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split Rationale | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | BacklogIterationDelivery | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |