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Criterion
Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration for Expectation Mapping.
Facilitation
Expectation 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 work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.When roles, interfaces, or projects fail because of differing expectations, Expectation Mapping surfaces these differences. It shows what each side takes for granted and where the pictures diverge.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-2 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-123-154-123-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadenceROAM Board, Owner ListAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsExpectation Map, Alignment Notes, Agreements
Tagsno overlap
TeamCollaborationAgile
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
AlignmentStakeholdersTeam
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