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| Criterion | ![]() Delivery Shape Up | ![]() Delivery Communication Plan | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | High |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 45-90 min | Mehrere Wochen | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 2-6 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | InnovationPrototypeResearch |



