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| Criterion |  Delivery RAID Log |  UX Research Affinity Diagramming |  UX Research User Interviews |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer. | When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 45–90 min | 30–60 min per interview | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 3-10 | 1 participant per interview | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Theme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |