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| Criterion | ![]() Agile Story Points | ![]() Facilitation Team Charter | ![]() Agile Bucket System | ![]() Agile Working Agreements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When teams want to rate complexity rather than hours, it creates a shared, relative scale. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Point Estimates, Reference Stories, and Velocity Data. | 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. | 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 collaboration needs more than implicit expectations, it lays out shared ground rules openly. It creates reliability for conduct, availability, and decision paths. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | laufend, 1-5 min je Item | 2-4 h | 30-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-9 | 3-12 | 3-12 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity Data | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates | Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review Cadence |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationAgileMeasurement | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | TeamCollaborationAgile |



