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| Criterion |  Delivery Shape Up |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |  Innovation Design Sprint |
|---|---|---|---|
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 uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 4-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 4-10 | 5-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation |
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