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| Criterion | ![]() Delivery Shape Up | ![]() Innovation Lean Startup | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | Mehrere Wochen | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
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 | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | LeanStartupValidationMVP | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | QuantitativeResearchValidation |



