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Criterion
How Might We
Innovation
How Might We
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
Purposedifferent
With a stuck problem carrying many implicit assumptions, the method translates observations into open, workable questions. It sharpens the problem frame without pre-thinking the solution, turning frustration or fuzziness into a search space with clear direction.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.A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30–45 min30 min Setup, dann laufend30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-101-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
HMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea PromptsRAID Log, Status Report SourceRich Picture, Problem Framing Notes
Tagsno overlap
FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
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Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Reverse Brainstorming
Innovation
Reverse Brainstorming