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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
Paper illustration of Barrier Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
Barrier Analysis
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 lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing.For a risk that can only be managed through multiple layers of protection, the method examines the effectiveness of each barrier. It shows where safeguards are missing, too weak, or fail under real conditions.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend30–60 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-154-82-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListEmpathy Map, Assumptions List, Research GapsBarrier Inventory, Failure Analysis per Barrier, Action Backlog
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
Root causeSafetyIncident
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Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
Paper illustration for Fault Tree Analysis.
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Fault Tree Analysis
Paper illustration of MORT Analysis with its method-specific working model.
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MORT Analysis