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Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
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Facilitation
Storytelling
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.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.The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list.When an insight needs to have an effect, storytelling translates dry facts into a comprehensible development. It combines context, tension, and consequence into a form that people remember and pass on more easily.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down5-15 min45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-62-4 pro Pitch1-51-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadencePitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepNarrative Outline, Key Message, Story Arc
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CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
StartupValidationCompetition
CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation
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