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| Criterion | ![]() Agile ROAM Board | ![]() UX Research Diary Study | ![]() Decision Making DACI | ![]() Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory. | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1-4 Wochen | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-15 | 5-20 | 2-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | ROAM Board, Owner List | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | UX researchTrackingBehavior | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |



