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Criterion
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Purposedifferent
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 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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview1-2 h30 min Setup, dann laufend60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview4-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceSalience Diagram, Strategy per Class
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
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