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| Criterion |  Delivery Shape Up |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 45-90 min | 20–45 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 2-8 | Small cross-functional group | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |