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Criterion
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
ChatOps workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
ChatOps
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.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.For operational work in a distributed team, the method links communication with direct system control. It records decisions right where the signal, the context, and the execution come together.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
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additionalOngoing30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-203-7
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsChat Transcript, Action Log, AutomationsExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
CollaborationEngineeringIncident
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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