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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment 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.An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale.When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung60-90 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-153-20 Reviewer3-64-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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