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| Criterion |  Team Design Spotify Model Mapping |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Decision Making DACI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 45-120 min | 30-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Spotify Model Map, Action List | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log |
Tagsno overlap | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment |