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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | When delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 90-180 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | LeanFlowWasteDelivery |
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