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Criterion
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Purposedifferent
When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable.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 stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.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
Ongoing6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down60-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-122-4 pro Pitch3-62-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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