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| Criterion |  Agile Three Amigos |  Innovation TRIZ |  Agile Specification by Example |  Innovation Contradiction Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles. | When business rules need to become precise, it ties language, example, and test together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as an Example Table and Acceptance Tests. | When a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | 1-4 h | 60-90 min pro Feature | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3 | 2-8 | 3-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Example Table, Acceptance Tests | Contradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas |
Tagsno overlap | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | AgileRequirementsExamplesBehavior-Driven Development | ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving |