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Selected:Three AmigosARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)arc42Acceptance Criteria Workshop
| Criterion |  Agile Three Amigos |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture arc42 |  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. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-2 Tage | 20-40 min pro Story |
Participantsdifferent | 3 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-4 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update |
Tagsno overlap | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development |