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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
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 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.When a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.When story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen20-40 min initial, dann laufend30-60 min15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
5-203-153-73
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineROAM Board, Owner ListExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsClarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
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