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| Criterion |  UX Research User Interviews |  Agile ROAM Board |  Product Discovery Opportunity Interview |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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 opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities. | 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 | 30–60 min per interview | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 30-60 min je Interview | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate |
Participantsdifferent | 1 participant per interview | 3-15 | 5-12 Interviews | 4-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | ROAM Board, Owner List | Interview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer Quotes | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories |
Tagsno overlap | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer | AgileDiscoveryDelivery |