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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Engineering Golden Path |  Delivery RAID Log |  Facilitation Alignment 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. | When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 2-8 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |