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A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration for Storytelling
Facilitation
Storytelling
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Purposedifferent
When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency.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.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.When many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min45-120 min45-90 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-101-62-62-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesNarrative Outline, Key Message, Story ArcCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadencePower Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
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