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Criterion
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
Paper illustration of a journey map with four connected phases, several experience lanes and a point marked for closer investigation.
UX Research
Customer Journey Mapping
Paper illustration of a horizontal story map with an activity backbone, task cards below it and a cross-map release line.
Product Discovery
User Story 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.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.When a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately.When user goals and delivery scope could drift apart, it orders the journey from goal to slice. It makes visible where an MVP can genuinely be cut.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down0.5-2 Tage2-4 h2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch6-124-104-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapJourney Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity BacklogStory Map, Release Slices, Backlog Candidates
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
JourneyServiceService design
BacklogJourneyPlanningMVP
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