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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
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 topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal.When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down3-14 Tage30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch50+2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesSurvey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
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PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
QuantitativeResearchValidation
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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Delivery
Communication Plan
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Delivery
Cost of Delay
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper illustration of MVP Test Matrix with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
MVP Test Matrix