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| Criterion | ![]() Delivery Shape Up | ![]() Product Strategy Lean Canvas | ![]() Delivery Value Stream Mapping | ![]() 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 delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible. | 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 | 1-3 h | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 1-6 | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | LeanStartupValidationMVP |



