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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
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
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.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.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
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Timedifferent
45-90 min6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down60–90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-62-4 pro Pitch2-82-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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