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Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
ChatOps workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
ChatOps
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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.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.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
15-30 minOngoing15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
32-201-3
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsChat Transcript, Action Log, AutomationsADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
CollaborationEngineeringIncident
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)