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Criterion
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 Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
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.The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment.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
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-2 h6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down2-3 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-4 pro Pitch3-82-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Product Canvas, Product Assumptions, Scope NotesPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesCompleted Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experimentCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
CanvasDiscoveryScope
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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