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Criterion
Paper Kanban board with To Discuss, Discussing and Discussed columns, topic cards, votes and timer.
Facilitation
Lean Coffee
Paper illustration for Storytelling
Facilitation
Storytelling
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Purposedifferent
When a group without a fixed agenda needs to get into useful conversations quickly, Lean Coffee structures the start around interests rather than a presentation. The group itself negotiates which topics get time first and which wait.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 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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min45-120 min45-90 min6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down
Participantsdifferent
3-201-62-62-4 pro Pitch
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized Topics, Discussion Notes, Action ItemsNarrative Outline, Key Message, Story ArcCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadencePitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationAutonomyDialogue
CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
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