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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric.The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down30-60 min2-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch1-53-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success MetricCompleted Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment
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PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
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Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
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Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
Paper illustration of Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas