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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
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Operations
Eat the Frog
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down30-90 min Setup, danach laufend1-2 h Setup, laufend15-90 min daily
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch1-811
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutinePriority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
ForecastingFlowDelivery
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
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