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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 Strategy Execution Loop with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Strategy Execution Loop
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.The Strategy Execution Loop helps avoid treating strategy as a one-off document. It makes visible how strategic decisions are turned into objectives, initiatives, operational work, measurement, and learning.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufendInitial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews
Participantsdifferent
3-153-10 (Scrum Team)5-12
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListProduct Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalExecution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
AgileIterationCadence
ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance
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Paper illustration of Strategic-Tactical-Operational Planning with its method-specific working model.
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