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| Criterion |  Agile Three Amigos |  UX Research User Interviews |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |  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. | When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. | When a story needs clear checkpoints before implementation, it sharpens expectation and scope together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Acceptance Criteria and a Story Update. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | 30–60 min per interview | 20-40 min pro Story | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3 | 1 participant per interview | 3-6 | 3-7 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement |