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Criterion
Four paper stations connect system purpose, quality goals, risk cards and focused investigation with a target and gap profile.
Architecture
LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews)
Paper illustration of a journey map with four connected phases, several experience lanes and a point marked for closer investigation.
UX Research
Customer Journey Mapping
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Purposedifferent
LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail.When a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately.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 a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional2-4 h30 min Setup, dann laufend1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people4-101-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Lean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checksJourney Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity BacklogRAID Log, Status Report SourceCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities
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ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
JourneyServiceService design
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
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