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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration for DACI
Decision Making
DACI
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
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.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated.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
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen20–45 min30-60 min20-40 min initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
5-20Small cross-functional group2-103-15
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logDACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision LogROAM Board, Owner List
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
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