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| Criterion |  Agile Working Agreements |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  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 loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 60-120 min | 5-15 min | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 5-12 | 3-20 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review Cadence | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list |
Tagsno overlap | TeamCollaborationAgile | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas |