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Criterion
Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
Paper illustration of Spotify Model Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Spotify Model Mapping
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 story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.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 a team landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action list.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min30-60 minHalf day90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
3-123-7Team-Leads plus Architecture5-15
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadenceExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsInteraction Heat Map, Agreements per PairSpotify Model Map, Action List
Tagsno overlap
TeamCollaborationAgile
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis
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