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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)
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
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.Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.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
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional60-90 min20-40 min pro Story
Participantsdifferent
3Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-123-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsAnnotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action BacklogAcceptance Criteria, Story Update
Tagsno overlap
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
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