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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
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 a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear.With an overloaded day full of too many tasks, a realistic picture of the day emerges. The method connects estimating, deciding, and buffer thinking so planning fits available energy and time.When a service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowHigh
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-3 h10-20 min daily0.5-2 Tage
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch3-1016-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesDaily Plan, Time Estimates, Review NotesService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership Map
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
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