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Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
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 system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly.For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.
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Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend60-120 min1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-152-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept IdeasContradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts
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RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
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Paper illustration of the Morphological Analysis working structure.
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Morphological Analysis
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Reverse Brainstorming