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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration for Feynman Technique.
Knowledge Modeling
Feynman Technique
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
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.The Feynman Technique checks understanding by explaining a topic so that it stays easy for others to understand. It makes knowledge gaps visible before they become costly in everyday work.When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture.When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down20-60 min45-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch14-124-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesPlain-language Explanation, Knowledge Gaps, Study NotesSailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
LearningKnowledgeUnderstanding
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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