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| Criterion |  Delivery Shape Up |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Delivery Communication Plan |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood. | 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 improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 3-12 | 2-6 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |