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| Criterion |  Delivery Shape Up |  Agile Story Splitting |  Operations Time Blocking |  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 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. | With a calendar that grows on request, the method makes available time explicit again. It combines appointments, focus work, and buffer into a more realistic day structure. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 30-60 min | 15-30 min Planung, laufend | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 2-6 | 1 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split Rationale | Blocked Calendar, Capacity View, Focus Plan | Story Map, Release Slices, Backlog Candidates |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | BacklogIterationDelivery | PlanningTime managementFocus | BacklogJourneyPlanningMVP |