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Criterion
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
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 story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process.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
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min15-30 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-633-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleClarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
Tagsno overlap
BacklogIterationDelivery
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
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