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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
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 several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-2 h1-2 h30 min Setup, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
3-154-123-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsInception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open QuestionsRAID Log, Status Report Source
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
AlignmentArchitectureCanvas
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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