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Criterion
Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Purposedifferent
In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.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.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
45-120 min60-120 min20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-84-103-154-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Option Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision InputsDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence PlanROAM Board, Owner ListAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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