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| Criterion |  Delivery Shape Up |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Engineering Kanban |  Innovation Lean Startup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 45-90 min | Ongoing | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 1-6 | 2-12 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | FlowVisual managementDelivery | LeanStartupValidationMVP |