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Criterion
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Purposedifferent
When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.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 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.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
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage30 min Setup, dann laufend1-2 h20-40 min initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone4-123-15
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesRAID Log, Status Report SourceAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsROAM Board, Owner List
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
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