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Criterion
Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Purposedifferent
A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early.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.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-2 h Setup, laufend45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-102-4 pro Pitch13-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Rich Picture, Problem Framing NotesPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineCATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders
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