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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Timeline | ![]() Facilitation Team Charter | ![]() Facilitation Consensus Workshop | ![]() Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time. | 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 group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 2-4 h | 1-3 h | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-12 | 5-30 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |



