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| Criterion |  Agile ROAM Board |  UX Research User Interviews |  Product Discovery Opportunity Interview |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. | When opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities. | When uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 30–60 min per interview | 30-60 min je Interview | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate |
Participantsdifferent | 3-15 | 1 participant per interview | 5-12 Interviews | 4-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | ROAM Board, Owner List | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Interview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer Quotes | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories |
Tagsno overlap | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer | AgileDiscoveryDelivery |