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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Purposedifferent
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.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-4 Wochen20-35 min25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch1-61-51-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryTest Card with a pre-set thresholdLearning Card with evidence and next action
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PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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