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Paper illustration of Spotify Model Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Spotify Model Mapping
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper illustration of a decision table with criteria rows, weighted ratings, and a narrowly leading alternative.
Decision Making
Decision Matrix
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 several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
90-180 min45-120 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-152-82-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Spotify Model Map, Action ListTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesDecision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option
Tagsno overlap
TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs
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Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
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Decision Framing Workshop
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis