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Criterion
Paper illustration of Dual Track Agile with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Dual-Track Agile
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Purposedifferent
When uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream.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.When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Laufend, Wochen bis Monate6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down60-180 min
Participantsdifferent
4-102-4 pro Pitch4-20
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte StoriesPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesCynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes
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AgileDiscoveryDelivery
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
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Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis