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Criterion
Paper illustration for Problem Interview
Product Discovery
Problem Interview
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Purposedifferent
When the picture of the problem still needs to become solid, it asks about real situations and consequences. It separates genuine suffering from mere interest in a solution.Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.When many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min je Interview1-3 Tage30-60 min60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-12 Interviews1-42-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Problem Evidence, Risk Notes, Customer SegmentsArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, RationalePower Interest Grid, Strategy per StakeholderStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
DiscoveryInterviewsValidation
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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