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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 Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
Purposedifferent
When a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately.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.The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
4-102-4 pro Pitch3-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity BacklogPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes
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JourneyServiceService design
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
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Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan