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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Purposedifferent
When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min2-3 h60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-63-82-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceCompleted Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experimentStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration for Problem Framing Workshop.
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Problem Framing Workshop