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Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Purposedifferent
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 service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit.With an overloaded day full of too many tasks, a realistic picture of the day emerges. The method connects estimating, deciding, and buffer thinking so planning fits available energy and time.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
30-60 min0.5-2 Tage10-20 min daily
Participantsdifferent
2-66-121
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapDaily Plan, Time Estimates, Review Notes
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BacklogIterationDelivery
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations
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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
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