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| Criterion |  Agile Working Agreements |  Innovation Brainstorming |  Agile Bucket System |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. | When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 30-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 3-12 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review Cadence | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | TeamCollaborationAgile | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |