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Paper illustration for World Café.
Facilitation
World Café
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper Kanban board with To Discuss, Discussing and Discussed columns, topic cards, votes and timer.
Facilitation
Lean Coffee
Purposedifferent
When a group needs to connect many viewpoints in a short time, World Café creates a calm alternation between closeness and rotation. It sets thinking in motion without forcing the conversation into full-plenary rigidity.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 group without a fixed agenda needs to get into useful conversations quickly, Lean Coffee structures the start around interests rather than a presentation. The group itself negotiates which topics get time first and which wait.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
60-180 min6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
12-100+2-4 pro Pitch3-20
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared QuestionsPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesPrioritized Topics, Discussion Notes, Action Items
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FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
FacilitationAutonomyDialogue
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