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Criterion
Paper illustration of a horizontal story map with an activity backbone, task cards below it and a cross-map release line.
Product Discovery
User Story Mapping
Process Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Operations
Process Mapping
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Purposedifferent
When user goals and delivery scope could drift apart, it orders the journey from goal to slice. It makes visible where an MVP can genuinely be cut.With a confusing workflow that has many handoffs, the method makes the actual process visible. It shows where work is passed on, delayed, or duplicated, so improvement targets the right spots.When a service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
2-4 h1-3 h0.5-2 Tage
Participantsdifferent
4-103-106-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Story Map, Release Slices, Backlog CandidatesProcess Map, Handoff List, Improvement BacklogService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership Map
Tagsno overlap
BacklogJourneyPlanningMVP
ProcessOperationsImprovement
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
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Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Paper illustration of a journey map with four connected phases, several experience lanes and a point marked for closer investigation.
UX Research
Customer Journey Mapping