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Criterion
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
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 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.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
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down60–90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-4 pro Pitch2-82-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Power Interest Grid, Strategy per StakeholderPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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