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Criterion
Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
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 of an eight-panel idea sheet with varied sketches beside a timer set to eight minutes.
Innovation
Crazy 8s
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Purposedifferent
When collaboration needs more than implicit expectations, it lays out shared ground rules openly. It creates reliability for conduct, availability, and decision paths.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.With only a few minutes available and a still-fuzzy solution search, the method forces a wide range of variants. It produces fast sketches before the first idea can settle in, making different directions directly comparable and open to further development.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min30-60 min8-15 min15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
3-123-71-103
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadenceExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsSketch Set, Idea Shortlist, Direction OptionsClarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
TeamCollaborationAgile
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
BrainstormingSketchingSpeedDivergenceDesign sprint
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
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