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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
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.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend45-90 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-152-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping