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Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
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Root Cause Analysis
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
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.When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.
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Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-4 h2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch3-83-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesProblem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action PlanCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
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PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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