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Criterion
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
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 illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment 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.McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result.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 several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
15-30 min2-4 h30-60 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
33-123-74-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change ActionsExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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