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| Criterion | ![]() Team Design Spotify Model Mapping | ![]() Facilitation Team Charter | ![]() Engineering Fault Isolation | ![]() 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 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. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | 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 | 2-4 h | 30-180 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 3-12 | 1-6 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Spotify Model Map, Action List | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tagsno overlap | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |



