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Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration for Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter
Purposedifferent
When collaboration needs more than implicit expectations, it lays out shared ground rules openly. It creates reliability for conduct, availability, and decision paths.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.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.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
45-90 min1-2 h2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-124-123-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadenceAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsTeam Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes
Tagsno overlap
TeamCollaborationAgile
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
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Paper illustration for Expectation Mapping.
Facilitation
Expectation Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model