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Criterion
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example 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.When business rules need to become precise, it ties language, example, and test together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as an Example Table and Acceptance Tests.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 a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min60-90 min pro Feature1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-63-63-10 (Scrum Team)3-7
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleExample Table, Acceptance TestsProduct Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
BacklogIterationDelivery
AgileRequirementsExamplesBehavior-Driven Development
AgileIterationCadence
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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