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| Criterion |  Facilitation Team Charter |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  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 improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. | When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 4-12 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tags1 shared | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |