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| Criterion |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Facilitation Team Charter |  Facilitation Expectation Mapping |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | When a team is starting fresh or working past each other, Team Charter clarifies the shared working basis. It visibly sets out how collaboration, decision paths, and mutual conduct should work day to day. | When roles, interfaces, or projects fail because of differing expectations, Expectation Mapping surfaces these differences. It shows what each side takes for granted and where the pictures diverge. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 2-4 h | 45-90 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-12 | 3-12 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Expectation Map, Alignment Notes, Agreements | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | FlowMeasurementConstraints | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | AlignmentStakeholdersTeam | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |