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Criterion
Paper illustration of a JTBD interview notebook with a decision timeline, forces of change and a concise job hypothesis.
Product Discovery
Jobs to Be Done
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
When switching motives and progress are unclear, it reconstructs the situation from real customer circumstances. It shows why a switch happens and what kind of progress is being sought.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
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 Wochen30 min Setup, dann laufend20-40 min initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
5-12 Interviews1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-15
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Job Stories, Outcome Statements, Opportunity ListRAID Log, Status Report SourceROAM Board, Owner List
Tagsno overlap
CustomerOutcomesNeeds
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
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Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)