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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.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.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend30-90 min1-2 h20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-152-84-12Small cross-functional group
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision BoundariesAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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