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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
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 group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on.With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-3 h15-30 min20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-155-303-124-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasIdea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized listIdea List, Cluster, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
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