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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Delivery RAID Log |  Decision Making RAPID |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 45-90 min | 20–45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 3-12 | Small cross-functional group |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | RAID Log, Status Report Source | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | DecisionRolesGovernance | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning |