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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Purposedifferent
When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h30-60 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-102-62-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesSmaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
BacklogIterationDelivery
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
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
Paper illustration of a journey map with four connected phases, several experience lanes and a point marked for closer investigation.
UX Research
Customer Journey Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid