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Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
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.When a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-4 Wochen30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-155-203-7
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListDiary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
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RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
UX researchTrackingBehavior
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example