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Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
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 service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down0.5-2 Tage60-120 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch6-122-83-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication PlanCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
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