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Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
Operations
Root Cause 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 a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen15-30 min1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
5-2033-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineClarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsProblem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
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Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
Operations
8D Problem Solving
Paper illustration for Root Cause Tree Analysis
Operations
Root Cause Tree Analysis
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop