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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
Paper illustration for Bucket System.
Agile
Bucket System
Purposedifferent
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 many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.When a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend30-90 min30-60 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
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Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsBucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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