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| Criterion |  Team Design Team Cognitive Load Assessment |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 60-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-20 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Cognitive Load Profile, Action List | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement |
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