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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
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
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 story becomes too large for a clean flow, it breaks scope down along value and risk. It shapes the work into a form that ships earlier and is easier to verify.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down30-60 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch2-64-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesSmaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleJourney Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity Backlog
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
BacklogIterationDelivery
JourneyServiceService design
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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
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting