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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 Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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 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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLowMedium
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-4 h45-90 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch3-82-61-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
RiskDecisionSensemaking
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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