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Criterion
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration for Contextual Inquiry.
UX Research
Contextual Inquiry
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.When work processes are known only from accounts and the real context stays hidden, Contextual Inquiry makes behavior at the workplace visible. Observation and follow-up questions together show how people actually work, get interrupted, and improvise.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
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min1-3 Wochen30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
34-12 Beobachtungen3-7
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsField Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain PointsExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
UX researchObservationContext
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
Operations
8D Problem Solving