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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Paper mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Purposedifferent
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.When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on.When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
Half day15-30 min15-45 min20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
Team-Leads plus Architecture3-121-104-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per PairIdea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized listMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsIdea List, Cluster, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
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