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Criterion
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Views and Beyond method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Views and Beyond
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Purposedifferent
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.Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.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 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
MediumMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend1-3 Tage20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)1-43-154-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, RationaleROAM Board, Owner ListAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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