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Criterion
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
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.For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.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.When a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLowMedium
Timedifferent
30 min Setup, dann laufend1-4 h20-40 min initial, dann laufend60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-83-152-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
RAID Log, Status Report SourceContradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsROAM Board, Owner ListContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas
Tagsno overlap
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
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