
Discover how to run effective Three Amigos sessions for requirements discovery and backlog grooming, eliminate misinterpreted requirements, and reduce defects while delivering customer value.
Identify why teams struggle with agile handoffs and defects, and explore a structured three amigos approach to improve feedback, collaboration, and clear understanding of requirements over traditional handoffs.
Discover a collaborative, two-way approach to development through behavior driven development, illustrating requirements and forming executable specifications, automated acceptance tests, and acceptance test driven development to reduce defects.
Explore the three amigos session to clarify user stories, feature needs, value, and risks, then translate insights into a formal given-when-then workflow guiding acceptance tests toward a working feature.
Discover how the three amigos technique boosts clarity, collaboration, and the surfacing of hidden assumptions in any agile project, even without BDD or cucumber, by using concrete examples.
Move through the Three Amigos perspectives—user, developer, and QA—to explore the scope of a user story by identifying examples and counterexamples of business rules, constraints, and user journeys.
Clarify the problem and business outcomes while validating constraints and risks, challenge the story to surface edge cases, define acceptance criteria, and enhance team communication for better alignment.
Nominate a facilitator and note taker, align on discussion format, gather questions and use acceptance criteria to plan testing strategies and next steps for a living Three Amigos workshop.
Demonstrate a practical three amigos session for a mobile banking feature, named savings account, with Patti, Sam, Bob, Dana, Tommy, and Fran aligning requirements and roles.
Nominate Sam as the facilitator and Fran as the note taker in a three Amigos session, leveraging the Scrum Master role and Fathom AI for efficient note taking.
Explore example mapping as a discovery tool in three amigos workshops, identifying rules, acceptance criteria, examples, and questions with blue, green, and pink cards.
Choose and agree on a Three Amigos workshop format, with example mapping as the central discovery tool to clarify business rules and acceptance criteria through examples, counterexamples, and questions.
Explore how to define savings account rules, including unique names, goal amounts, target dates, and dashboard visibility, with example mapping, edge-case questions, and testing strategies.
Agree on a testing strategy that proves unique savings account creation quickly. Map unit, API, UI, and end-to-end tests, including duplicates and special characters, to validate acceptance criteria.
Learn feature mapping within the three amigos framework, walking through user-focused steps, preconditions, and system interactions to reveal outcomes and consequences for customer onboarding.
Explore the end-to-end onboarding of a new customer in a mobile banking app, covering identity verification, photo ID, credit checks, and criminal history, plus edge-case testing.
Finish your three amigos by updating acceptance criteria, saving an example or feature map as a living reference, resolving questions, and planning a formulation session to craft executable given-when-then scenarios.
Learn how to transform three amigos outputs into executable specifications using Gherkin given-when-then notation, enabling shared understanding and automated acceptance tests that codify business rules.
Explore converting real-world margin trading scenarios into given-when-then rules using example maps, Gherkin syntax, and data tables to model margin accounts, equity, and margin calls.
Use ChatGPT and generative ai to accelerate high level requirements discovery, vision statements, user journeys, and test strategy in early projects, with prompts for impact mapping.
Use AI to expand epics into detailed features and stories through story mapping, defining user journeys and business benefits for automated route planning.
Define high level acceptance criteria for epics and translate them into user stories using the as I want so that format, with AI assistance in a Three Amigos session.
Are your Three Amigos workshops really delivering value?
Do your sessions take too long, feel unproductive, or still result in misunderstood requirements and late defects? Many teams think they’re running effective 3-Amigos sessions—but without the right structure and techniques, they miss critical gaps that lead to rework, frustration, and wasted time.
In this course, you’ll learn a proven, step-by-step process to transform your workshops into focused, high-impact sessions. This approach has helped hundreds of Agile teams deliver clearer requirements, fewer defects, and higher-quality features—without wasting hours in unnecessary discussions.
Whether you’re practicing BDD, Scrum, or SAFe, this course will give you the tools to:
Uncover hidden issues before development starts.
Align developers, testers, and product owners quickly and effectively.
Produce clear, testable acceptance criteria every time.
What You’ll Learn
How to run structured 3-Amigos workshops that deliver results.
Use Example Mapping and Feature Mapping to clarify requirements and uncover edge cases.
Identify gaps, hidden assumptions, and tricky scenarios before they become defects.
Facilitate sessions that keep developers, testers, and product owners engaged and aligned.
Use modern AI tools to accelerate your discovery process and capture insights efficiently.
Watch Real-World Workshops in Action
See real, start-to-finish Example Mapping and Feature Mapping sessions where an experienced facilitator:
Guides conversations to uncover essential requirements.
Handles common challenges and keeps everyone focused.
Captures outputs in a way that ensures clarity and testability.
Who This Course Is For
Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches looking to streamline their workshops.
Product Owners and Business Analysts who need clear, actionable requirements.
Developers seeking better alignment and fewer surprises.
QA Engineers who want earlier involvement and fewer late-stage defects.
By the End of This Course, You’ll Be Able To:
Run 3-Amigos workshops that are fast, focused, and effective.
Engage your entire team and drive meaningful collaboration.
Produce clear, testable requirements that prevent rework and defects.
Cut meeting times in half while increasing output quality.
If you’re new to Three Amigos or feel like your current workshops aren’t as productive as they could be, this course will give you the tools and confidence to make a real impact.
Stop wasting time on unproductive requirements sessions—transform your process today!