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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 Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter
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 is starting fresh or working past each other, Team Charter clarifies the shared working basis. It visibly sets out how collaboration, decision paths, and mutual conduct should work day to day.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 minHalf day30-90 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-12Team-Leads plus Architecture3-123-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadenceInteraction Heat Map, Agreements per PairAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsTeam Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes
Tagsno overlap
TeamCollaborationAgile
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
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