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| Criterion |  Team Design Spotify Model Mapping |  Engineering Golden Path |  DevOps ChatOps |  Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action list. | When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. | For operational work in a distributed team, the method links communication with direct system control. It records decisions right where the signal, the context, and the execution come together. | When several teams collaborate repeatedly, it describes the right interaction mode for each interface between them. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as an interaction heat map and pairwise agreements. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | Ongoing | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 2-8 | 2-20 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Spotify Model Map, Action List | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Chat Transcript, Action Log, Automations | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tagsno overlap | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | CollaborationEngineeringIncident | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |