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Paper illustration for Storytelling
Facilitation
Storytelling
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Purposedifferent
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.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 several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-120 min6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
1-62-4 pro Pitch4-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Narrative Outline, Key Message, Story ArcPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model