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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Team Charter | ![]() Product Strategy Lean Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping | ![]() 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 an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 45-90 min | 45-60 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 1-6 | 2-8 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |



