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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Delivery RAID Log |  Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |  Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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, 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. | A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 2-4 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 3-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders |