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Criterion
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
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 mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
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 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.When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
15-30 min30-60 min15-45 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage
Participantsdifferent
33-71-1010-50
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction
Tagsno overlap
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
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