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Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
ChatOps workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
ChatOps
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Paper illustration for Ideal Days.
Agile
Ideal Days
Purposedifferent
When collaboration needs more than implicit expectations, it lays out shared ground rules openly. It creates reliability for conduct, availability, and decision paths.For operational work in a distributed team, the method links communication with direct system control. It records decisions right where the signal, the context, and the execution come together.When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 minOngoing30-90 min15-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-122-203-122-9
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadenceChat Transcript, Action Log, AutomationsAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsIdeal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity Caveats
Tagsno overlap
TeamCollaborationAgile
CollaborationEngineeringIncident
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
EstimationEffortAgile
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