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Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
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 statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-3 h0.5-2 Tage
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch1-84-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleScenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust Options
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PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
SensemakingDecisionRationale
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
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