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Criterion
Paper illustration of Futures Wheel with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Futures Wheel
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Purposedifferent
The Futures Wheel helps explore the consequences of a decision, a trend, or a strategic move in a structured way. It makes visible which first, second, and third-order effects could arise from an event.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.CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way.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
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
60-120 min6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down45-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-102-4 pro Pitch3-82-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Futures Wheel, Consequence Chains, Strategic SignalsPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesCATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, ConstraintsCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
ForesightSystems thinkingSignals
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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