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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 for Root Cause Analysis.
Operations
Root Cause 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.When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend30–60 min1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-154-83-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListEmpathy Map, Assumptions List, Research GapsProblem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
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Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
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Affinity Diagramming
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Paper illustration for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
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