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Criterion
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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
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 several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.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.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
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min1-2 h20-40 min pro Story30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
34-123-63-7
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsAcceptance Criteria, Story UpdateExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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