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Criterion
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Paper illustration for Time Blocking
Operations
Time Blocking
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
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.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.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 many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min15-30 min Planung, laufend6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-612-4 pro Pitch2-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleBlocked Calendar, Capacity View, Focus PlanPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
BacklogIterationDelivery
PlanningTime managementFocus
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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