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Criterion
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Four paper stations connect system purpose, quality goals, risk cards and focused investigation with a target and gap profile.
Architecture
LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews)
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Purposedifferent
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.LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-2 h3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional30 min Setup, dann laufend20-40 min initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
4-121 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-15
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsLean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checksRAID Log, Status Report SourceROAM Board, Owner List
Tagsno overlap
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
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