Turns customer value, goals, and priorities into a tangible result through defining objectives, setting key results, and running review and adjustment.
Core question: Which three to five measurable outcomes will the team deliver next quarter, and how can success be recognized objectively?
Planning toolMethod form: Planning tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-2 h Setup
2-20
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FacilitationCategory: Facilitation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns group contributions, selection, and decision-making into a tangible result by defining three perspectives, collecting items, and deriving implications.
Core question: Which items sit in which intersections of the three perspectives, and what implications follow for next decisions?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
15-45 min
2-8
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EngineeringCategory: Engineering. Describes the method's domain of use.
Moves technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps toward a concrete result through "formulate the goal clearly", "derive probing questions for each goal", and "set the review cadence".
Core question: Which questions must we be able to answer to know whether we are reaching our goal, and which metric answers each question?
Planning toolMethod form: Planning tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
90-180 min
3-6
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Business StrategyCategory: Business Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Clarifies starting point, opportunities, and strategic options by framing the scope and target state, capturing the seven elements, and deriving change actions.
Core question: Which seven S are not aligned and which tension most strongly threatens execution of the strategy?
Analysis methodMethod form: Analysis method. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
2-4 h
3-12
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FacilitationCategory: Facilitation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Moves group input, selection, and decision toward a concrete result through "collect stakeholders individually and by group", "explain power and interest", and "derive a strategy for each quadrant".
Core question: Which stakeholders need which communication and relationship strategy, based on their power and interest in the initiative?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-60 min
2-8
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Product StrategyCategory: Product Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns target group, value, goals, and priorities into a tangible result by drafting a raw goal, checking specificity, and defining time relevance.
Core question: How should the goal be worded so precisely that an outside person can objectively determine in 6 months whether it was achieved?
Planning toolMethod form: Planning tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
15-30 min
1-8
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FacilitationCategory: Facilitation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns options, selection, and decisions into a tangible result by listing stakeholders, assessing influence and interest, and planning next conversations.
Core question: Who is affected by the initiative, who influences success, and which relationship must be maintained with whom, at which frequency and message?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-60 min
2-8
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FacilitationCategory: Facilitation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns group input, selection, and decision into a tangible result by clarifying team purpose, capturing goals and stakeholders, and reviewing the charter over time.
Core question: Why does the team exist, how does it measure success, and how does it collaborate so everyone knows what to expect from each other?
Operating practiceMethod form: Operating practice. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
2-4 h
3-12
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FacilitationCategory: Facilitation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns group input, selection, and decision into a tangible result by defining the alignment question, collecting stakeholder perspectives, and planning clarification steps.
Core question: Where do stakeholders align, where do they diverge, and what clarifications are needed before a decision can move forward?
Facilitation methodMethod form: Facilitation method. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-2 h
4-12
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ArchitectureCategory: Architecture. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns architecture context, options, and consequences into a tangible result by defining the problem, collecting goals and constraints, and determining next investigations.
Core question: Which minimal architecture decision covers the goals, constraints, and stakeholder needs without prematurely closing options?
CanvasMethod form: Canvas. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-2 h
3-8
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FacilitationCategory: Facilitation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns group contributions, selection, and decision-making into a tangible result by asking a focus question, collecting ideas individually, and formulating consensus themes.
Core question: Which shared themes emerge from the variety of individual contributions to the focus question?
Facilitation methodMethod form: Facilitation method. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-3 h
5-30
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Decision MakingCategory: Decision Making. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns options, criteria, and risks into a tangible result by defining the decision, naming the driver and approver, and documenting decision and follow-up.
Core question: What decision does the Approver make based on Driver preparation and Contributor input, and who gets informed when and by whom?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-60 min
2-10
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Decision MakingCategory: Decision Making. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns options, criteria, and risks into a tangible result by framing the decision question, clarifying context and goals, and defining evidence needs and the next decision format.
Core question: Is everyone discussing the same decision with the same options, criteria, and roles?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
60-120 min
4-10
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Decision MakingCategory: Decision Making. Describes the method's domain of use.
Moves options, criteria, and risks toward a concrete result through "identify key decision types", "collect roles", and "document and communicate the agreement".
Core question: Which role decides which type of decision, which roles are consulted before it, which are informed afterwards, and how do we make that binding?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
90-180 min
4-12
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FacilitationCategory: Facilitation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns group input, selection, and decision into a tangible result by clarifying stakeholders and scope, collecting expectations silently, and deriving agreements.
Core question: Which expectations do participants bring to outcome, collaboration, and behavior, where do they differ, and which agreements resolve the differences?
Facilitation methodMethod form: Facilitation method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
45-90 min
3-12
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Product StrategyCategory: Product Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Moves target group, value, goals, and priorities toward a concrete result through "define the top metric", "describe the main driver of the top metric", and "set the review cadence".
Core question: How does the top metric decompose into controllable sub-metrics, which one contributes how much, and who is responsible for each lever?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
90-180 min initial, dann laufend
3-8
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GrowthCategory: Growth. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns funnel behavior, user behavior, and experiments into a tangible result through mapping customer value, collecting candidate metrics, and deriving input metrics.
Core question: Which one metric reflects the value the product creates for users and correlates with sustainable growth?
Planning toolMethod form: Planning tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-2 h
3-8
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FacilitationCategory: Facilitation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns group input, selection, and decision into a tangible result by collecting the starting situation, clarifying affected people and impacts, and choosing a shared working definition.
Core question: Which concrete problem, for which affected people, with which impact should be worked on next?
Facilitation methodMethod form: Facilitation method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
60-120 min
4-10
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Product StrategyCategory: Product Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Vision, target group, needs, value, and business goals fit onto one board that exposes assumptions for validation.
Core question: Which shareable product vision connects target group, needs, product idea and business goals so discovery and roadmap can align to it?
CanvasMethod form: Canvas. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-2 h
2-8
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AgileCategory: Agile. Describes the method's domain of use.
Moves backlog, sprint work, and team flow toward a concrete result through "create a board with the four columns Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated", "carry over risks from earlier stages such as Risk Storming", and "update the board at every review".
Core question: Which risks are in which follow-up state, who is responsible, and which need movement between columns now?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
20-40 min initial, dann laufend
3-15
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ArchitectureCategory: Architecture. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns architecture context, options, and outcomes into a tangible result by naming the system and goals, gathering stakeholders and constraints, and documenting decisions and questions.
Core question: Which components, interfaces, decisions and cross-cutting concerns together form a consistent architecture that satisfies the quality attribute scenarios?
CanvasMethod form: Canvas. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-2 h
3-10
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Team DesignCategory: Team Design. Describes the method's domain of use.
Moves team boundaries, interfaces, and collaboration toward a concrete result through "prepare a template with the four structures", "place current teams as squads", and "derive actions".
Core question: How is our engineering org actually structured into squads, tribes, chapters and guilds, and where do friction or gaps emerge?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
90-180 min
5-15
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FacilitationCategory: Facilitation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Moves group input, selection, and decision toward a concrete result through "prepare the stakeholder list", "define power, legitimacy, and urgency", and "derive strategy by class".
Core question: Which stakeholders combine which combination of power, legitimacy and urgency, and which strategy follows for each of the eight classes?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
60-90 min
3-6
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Business StrategyCategory: Business Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Visualisiert strategische Ziele und Ursache-Wirkungs-Beziehungen, damit ein Führungsteam dieselbe Strategiegeschichte sieht.
Core question: Welche wenigen Objectives beschreiben die Strategie als nachvollziehbare Wirkungskette von Fähigkeiten über Prozesse bis zu Stakeholder- und Ergebniswirkung?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
2-4 h Workshop plus Review
4-10
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Product DiscoveryCategory: Product Discovery. Describes the method's domain of use.
A future press release and FAQ force customer value, launch story, objections, and evidence into one reviewable artifact.
Core question: Which press release and FAQ can the team write today so it becomes clear what the launch will mean for customers in 12-24 months and whether it is worth building?
Process modelMethod form: Process model. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
4-8 h, mehrere Iterationen
2-6
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Team DesignCategory: Team Design. Describes the method's domain of use.
Moves team boundaries, interfaces, and collaboration toward a concrete result through "provide the template", "clarify responsibilities and non-responsibilities", and "anchor it visibly in the wiki".
Core question: What does our team offer other teams as service, how do they interact with us, and what can they expect?
Operating practiceMethod form: Operating practice. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
Half day initial, dann laufend
Ein Team plus Stakeholder
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Team DesignCategory: Team Design. Describes the method's domain of use.
Moves team boundaries, interfaces, and collaboration toward a concrete result through "prepare the team list", "explain the three modes with examples", and "document agreements per pair".
Core question: Which interaction mode fits per team pair, and how do we agree modes bindingly to reduce interface friction?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.