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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 Root Cause Analysis.
Operations
Root Cause Analysis
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 a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage30 min Setup, dann laufend1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesRAID Log, Status Report SourceProblem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
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Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
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