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Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
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
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.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend60-120 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-152-83-7
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication PlanExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)