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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 two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
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.When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend30–60 min1-3 Tage30 min Setup, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
3-154-8Internes Team1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListEmpathy Map, Assumptions List, Research GapsPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesRAID Log, Status Report Source
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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