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Criterion
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration for Behavior Over Time Graph.
Systems Thinking
Behavior Over Time Graph
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.A Behavior Over Time Graph shows how a metric or observation develops over time. The method makes trends, breaks, and recurring patterns visible that get lost in snapshots.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min20-45 min20-40 min pro Story
Participantsdifferent
31-103-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsBehavior Over Time Graph, Trend Hypotheses, Key EventsAcceptance Criteria, Story Update
Tagsno overlap
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
Systems thinkingPatternsDynamics
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
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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
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
Paper illustration of System Archetypes with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
System Archetypes
Causal Loop Diagram workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Causal Loop Diagram