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Criterion
Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
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Agile
Ideal Days
Paper illustration for T-Shirt Sizing.
Agile
T-Shirt Sizing
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Facilitation
Dot Estimation
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 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.When effort only needs to be classified roughly, it makes comparability more important than false precision. It helps sort work quickly into manageable sizes.When size or effort can only be estimated roughly, Dot Estimation condenses the group's experience into a quick range. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as an Effort Heatmap, Risk Signals, and Discussion Targets.
Complexitysame
LowLowLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min15-60 min15-45 min5-20 min
Participantsdifferent
3-122-92-123-20
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadenceIdeal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsSize Buckets, Rough Backlog Map, Split CandidatesEffort Heatmap, Risk Signals, Discussion Targets
Tagsno overlap
TeamCollaborationAgile
EstimationEffortAgile
EstimationAgileRoadmap
EstimationEffortRisk
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