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Criterion
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
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.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.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
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min90-180 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-63-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleCoD Table, Prioritization SequenceAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
Tagsno overlap
BacklogIterationDelivery
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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