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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Paper illustration for Reverse Brainstorming
Innovation
Reverse Brainstorming
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction 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.For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.For persistent errors or blockages, the method shifts the view to the opposite of the desired effect. It exposes the mechanics of failure and makes hidden causes easier to grasp. This makes improvement more concrete and the problem clearer.When a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-4 h30-60 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
3-152-83-122-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListContradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsReverse Ideas, Risk Themes, Solution IdeasContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityRisk
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
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