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| Criterion |  Agile Three Amigos |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Agile Example Mapping |  Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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 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 team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3 | 3-10 | 3-7 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |