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| Criterion |  Agile Three Amigos |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | 15-45 min | 1-3 Tage | 20-40 min pro Story |
Participantsdifferent | 3 | 1-3 | 1-4 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update |
Tagsno overlap | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development |