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Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
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 for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
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.GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list.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.When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.
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Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-DownWochen bis Monate je Goal1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch3-104-102-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesGoals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reportsProblem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
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PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
InnovationPrototypeResearch
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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