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Paper illustration for Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration for Responsibility Poker.
Facilitation
Responsibility Poker
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
Purposedifferent
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 decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.When it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h60-90 min45-90 minHalf day
Participantsdifferent
3-124-103-10Team-Leads plus Architecture
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team Charter, Working Norms, Role NotesProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentResponsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open QuestionsInteraction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
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