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| Criterion |  Product Discovery User Story Mapping |  Agile Affinity Estimation |  Delivery Shape Up |  Agile Story Splitting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When user goals and delivery scope could drift apart, it orders the journey from goal to slice. It makes visible where an MVP can genuinely be cut. | When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes. | 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 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 30-90 min | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-12 | 2-4 pro Pitch | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Story Map, Release Slices, Backlog Candidates | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | BacklogJourneyPlanningMVP | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | BacklogIterationDelivery |