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Criterion
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper illustration for Dot Estimation.
Facilitation
Dot Estimation
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.When a team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries.When size or effort can only be estimated roughly, Dot Estimation condenses the group's experience into a quick range. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as an Effort Heatmap, Risk Signals, and Discussion Targets.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
MediumMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend5-20 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-63-10 (Scrum Team)3-203-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleProduct Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalEffort Heatmap, Risk Signals, Discussion TargetsAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
Tagsno overlap
BacklogIterationDelivery
AgileIterationCadence
EstimationEffortRisk
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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