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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Agile Three Amigos |  Agile ROAM Board |  Operations Failure Mode and Effects 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. | 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. | 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. | For a process, product, or service with noticeable failure risks, the method assesses possible failure modes in advance. It directs attention to combinations of occurrence, effect, and detectability. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 15-30 min | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 2-6 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3 | 3-15 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | ROAM Board, Owner List | FMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation Actions |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause |