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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Delivery Shape Up |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Delivery Communication Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | 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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | 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 | High | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 4-5 Tage | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | Mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-8 | 2-4 pro Pitch | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence |
Tagsno overlap | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning |