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| Criterion |  Agile Working Agreements |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Innovation Brainstorming |  Innovation Brainwriting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | 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 loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 15-45 min | 30-60 min | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 1-10 | 4-12 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review Cadence | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list |
Tagsno overlap | TeamCollaborationAgile | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas |