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| Criterion |  Agile Three Amigos |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |  Facilitation Stakeholder 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 an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | 1-2 h | 20-40 min pro Story | 60–90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3 | 4-12 | 3-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes |
Tagsno overlap | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange |