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| Criterion |  Agile Working Agreements |  Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes |  Agile Affinity Estimation |  Team Design Spotify Model 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 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 a team landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action list. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Half day | 30-90 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | Team-Leads plus Architecture | 3-12 | 5-15 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review Cadence | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | Spotify Model Map, Action List |
Tagsno overlap | TeamCollaborationAgile | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis |