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Criterion
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
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 an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency.When experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory.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
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30 min Setup, dann laufend45-90 min1-4 Wochen20-40 min initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-105-203-15
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
RAID Log, Status Report SourceContext canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesDiary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineROAM Board, Owner List
Tagsno overlap
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
UX researchTrackingBehavior
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
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