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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
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.The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment.With an overloaded day full of too many tasks, a realistic picture of the day emerges. The method connects estimating, deciding, and buffer thinking so planning fits available energy and time.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down2-3 h10-20 min daily45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch3-812-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesCompleted Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experimentDaily Plan, Time Estimates, Review NotesCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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