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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper illustration of Barrier Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
Barrier Analysis
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor 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 team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries.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.For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend2-4 h2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
3-153-10 (Scrum Team)2-63-10
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListProduct Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalBarrier Inventory, Failure Analysis per Barrier, Action BacklogEvent Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
AgileIterationCadence
Root causeSafetyIncident
CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline
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