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| Criterion |  Facilitation Team Charter |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  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 deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood. | 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 | 30-60 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 3-12 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tags1 shared | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |