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| Criterion |  Agile ROAM Board |  UX Research Diary Study |  Growth Flywheel |  Growth North Star 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. | 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. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1-4 Wochen | 60-120 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-15 | 5-20 | 3-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | ROAM Board, Owner List | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | UX researchTrackingBehavior | GrowthRetentionConversion | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |