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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
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.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.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
MediumHighHigh
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-4 Wochen90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch6-30 Experten3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis