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| Criterion |  Agile Story Points |  Agile ROAM Board |  UX Research Diary Study |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When teams want to rate complexity rather than hours, it creates a shared, relative scale. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Point Estimates, Reference Stories, and Velocity Data. | 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 experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | laufend, 1-5 min je Item | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1-4 Wochen | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-9 | 3-15 | 5-20 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity Data | ROAM Board, Owner List | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationAgileMeasurement | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | UX researchTrackingBehavior | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |