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| Criterion | ![]() Delivery Shape Up | ![]() UX Design Customer Journey Canvas | ![]() UX Design Service Blueprinting | ![]() Operations ALPEN Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 1-3 h | 0.5-2 Tage | 10-20 min daily |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 3-10 | 6-12 | 1 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership Map | Daily Plan, Time Estimates, Review Notes |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint | PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations |



