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| Criterion |  Agile Three Amigos |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  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. | When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. | 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 | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 20-40 min pro Story |
Participantsdifferent | 3 | 3-10 | 3-10 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update |
Tagsno overlap | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development |