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Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor Analysis
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
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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.For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events.When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.
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Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down2-6 h45-90 min2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch3-102-63-8
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
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Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesEvent Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective ActionsCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
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PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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