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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration for Problem Framing Workshop.
Facilitation
Problem Framing Workshop
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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 a team works on symptoms but the real question stays fuzzy, a Problem Framing Workshop sharpens the view of the right problem. It separates observation, interpretation, and target picture from each other.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend30–60 min per interview60-120 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-151 participant per interview4-104-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryProblem Statement, Scope Boundaries, Assumption List, Next Analysis QuestionsAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
FacilitationAlignmentDiscovery
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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