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Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Purposedifferent
When delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible.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 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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-2 h30 min Setup, dann laufend20-40 min initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
4-104-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-15
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck listAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceROAM Board, Owner List
Tagsno overlap
LeanFlowWasteDelivery
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
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