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A paper-based illustration representing Product Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Strategy
Product Canvas
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Purposedifferent
When product goal and feature scope don't yet fit cleanly together, it creates a shared working picture. It connects need, core features, and assumptions into a solid starting point.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.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-2 h6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-4 pro Pitch1-3
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Product Canvas, Product Assumptions, Scope NotesPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
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CanvasDiscoveryScope
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ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
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Architecture Communication Canvas
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan