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Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
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.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.The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list.
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Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen5-15 min
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch4-101-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
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Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesProblem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step
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PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
InnovationPrototypeResearch
StartupValidationCompetition
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Innovation
Design Sprint
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Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation