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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy 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 teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.When a lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down30–60 min per interview30–60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch1 participant per interview4-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryEmpathy Map, Assumptions List, Research Gaps
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
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Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of Dual Track Agile with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Dual-Track Agile