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Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration for Storytelling
Facilitation
Storytelling
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication 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 an insight needs to have an effect, storytelling translates dry facts into a comprehensible development. It combines context, tension, and consequence into a form that people remember and pass on more easily.When research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down45-120 min45–90 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch1-63-102-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesNarrative Outline, Key Message, Story ArcTheme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areasCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation
SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
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