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| Criterion |  Agile ROAM Board |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Strategy SMART Goals |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | When goals are formulated too generally, it brings measurability, direction, and timing into shape. It prevents intentions from staying without clear verification. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 15-30 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-15 | 4-10 | 1-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | ROAM Board, Owner List | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | SMART Goal, Measurement Note, Deadline | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | InnovationPrototypeResearch | GoalsPlanningMeasurementAlignment | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |