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| Criterion |  Agile Three Amigos |  Innovation How Might We |  UX Design Design Studio |  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. | With a stuck problem carrying many implicit assumptions, the method translates observations into open, workable questions. It sharpens the problem frame without pre-thinking the solution, turning frustration or fuzziness into a search space with clear direction. | When several designs need to be quickly put in relation to each other, it makes ideas visible and comparable. It encourages early variants instead of long upfront debates. | 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 | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | 30–45 min | 1-3 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3 | 1-10 | 3-8 | 3-7 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | HMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea Prompts | Sketches, Concept Directions, Design Decisions | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions | SketchingCollaborationIdeation | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement |