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| Criterion |  Delivery Shape Up |  Innovation Lean Startup |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Sprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | Mehrere Wochen | 4-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 5-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | LeanStartupValidationMVP | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation |