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Criterion
Paper illustration for Responsibility Poker.
Facilitation
Responsibility Poker
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Paper illustration for Bucket System.
Agile
Bucket System
Paper mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Purposedifferent
When it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences.When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on.When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates.When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
45-90 min15-30 min30-90 min15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-103-123-121-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Responsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open QuestionsIdea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized listBucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split CandidatesMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
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