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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 Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLowLow
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-4 h45-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch3-82-62-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
RiskDecisionSensemaking
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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