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| Criterion |  UX Research Personas |  Delivery Shape Up |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions. | 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 uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate |
Participantsdifferent | Internes Team | 2-4 pro Pitch | 4-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories |
Tagsno overlap | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | AgileDiscoveryDelivery |
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