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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 of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-2 h6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down2-3 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-4 pro Pitch3-81-5
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 experimentCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
Tagsno overlap
CanvasDiscoveryScope
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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