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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration for Concierge MVP
Product Discovery
Concierge MVP
Paper illustration of Dual Track Agile with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Dual-Track Agile
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.ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution.When uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-4 WochenLaufend, Wochen bis Monate
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro PitchDesigners, developers as users, and facilitation3-10 Kunden4-10
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsConcierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP RisksDiscovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
MVPValidationServiceDiscovery
AgileDiscoveryDelivery
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