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Criterion
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Purposedifferent
When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts.When a story becomes too large for a clean flow, it breaks scope down along value and risk. It shapes the work into a form that ships earlier and is easier to verify.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-122-4 pro Pitch2-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesSmaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split Rationale
Tagsno overlap
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
BacklogIterationDelivery
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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
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