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| Criterion |  Agile ROAM Board |  UX Research User Interviews |  UX Research Personas |  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 target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions. | 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 | 1-3 Tage | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate |
Participantsdifferent | 3-15 | 1 participant per interview | Internes Team | 4-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | ROAM Board, Owner List | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories |
Tagsno overlap | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | AgileDiscoveryDelivery |