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Criterion
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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 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.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min15-45 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
31-33-7
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsADR File, Decision Log, RationaleExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop