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| Criterion |  Facilitation Team Charter |  Team Design Team Cognitive Load Assessment |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Team Design Spotify Model 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 team juggles too many domains, systems, or handoffs, it measures mental overload as an organizational problem. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a cognitive-load profile and action list. | 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 landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action list. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 60-90 min | 45-90 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-12 | 4-12 | 5-15 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Cognitive Load Profile, Action List | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Spotify Model Map, Action List |
Tags1 shared | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis |