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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
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
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.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-4 Wochen90-180 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch6-30 Experten3-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesCoD Table, Prioritization SequenceDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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