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Paper illustration for Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter
Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
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.A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early.When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h30-90 min60-180 min
Participantsdifferent
3-122-104-20
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team Charter, Working Norms, Role NotesRich Picture, Problem Framing NotesCynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
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Paper illustration for Soft Systems Methodology.
Systems Thinking
Soft Systems Methodology
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis