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Criterion
Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Purposedifferent
In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
30-180 min60–90 min30 min Setup, dann laufend20-40 min initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
1-62-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-15
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesRAID Log, Status Report SourceROAM Board, Owner List
Tagsno overlap
TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
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