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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
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 strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-4 h1-3 h20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch3-81-8Small cross-functional group
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
RiskDecisionSensemaking
SensemakingDecisionRationale
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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