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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Team Charter | ![]() Facilitation Decision Jam | ![]() Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes | ![]() Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 60-90 min | Half day | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-10 | Team-Leads plus Architecture | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |



