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Criterion
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
ChatOps workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
ChatOps
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
Purposedifferent
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 a story needs clear checkpoints before implementation, it sharpens expectation and scope together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Acceptance Criteria and a Story Update.For operational work in a distributed team, the method links communication with direct system control. It records decisions right where the signal, the context, and the execution come together.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
15-30 min20-40 min pro StoryOngoing60-90 min pro Feature
Participantsdifferent
33-62-203-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsAcceptance Criteria, Story UpdateChat Transcript, Action Log, AutomationsExample Table, Acceptance Tests
Tagsno overlap
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
CollaborationEngineeringIncident
AgileRequirementsExamplesBehavior-Driven Development
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