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Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
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.The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.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.
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MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-2 h30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-63-103-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality AttributesAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
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BacklogIterationDelivery
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop