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Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Paper illustration for Planning Poker.
Agile
Planning Poker
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 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 many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.When estimates within the team diverge too much, it puts differing expectations on a common test bench. It separates rough complexity from unspoken assumptions.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 minHalf day30-90 min2-5 min je Item
Participantsdifferent
3-12Team-Leads plus Architecture3-123-9
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadenceInteraction Heat Map, Agreements per PairAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsRelative Estimates, Assumption Notes, Split Candidates
Tagsno overlap
TeamCollaborationAgile
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
EstimationAgileRelative sizingTeam
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