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| Criterion | ![]() Systems Thinking Rich Picture | ![]() Delivery Shape Up | ![]() Operations Getting Things Done | ![]() 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 | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 2-4 pro Pitch | 1 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders |



