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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
A paper-based illustration representing Brainstorming with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Brainstorming
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
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 a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development.In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space.When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend30-60 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-154-1210-503-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListIdea pool, Theme clusters, ShortlistSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized DirectionLotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop
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