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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 for Storytelling
Facilitation
Storytelling
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
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 an insight needs to have an effect, storytelling translates dry facts into a comprehensible development. It combines context, tension, and consequence into a form that people remember and pass on more easily.When many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
Ongoing6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down45-120 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-122-4 pro Pitch1-62-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesNarrative Outline, Key Message, Story ArcPower Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
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