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Criterion
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Purposedifferent
When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down
Participantsdifferent
1-62-4 pro Pitch
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes
Tagsno overlap
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
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Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping