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| Criterion | ![]() Agile Working Agreements | ![]() Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes | ![]() Facilitation Team Charter | ![]() 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 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 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. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Half day | 2-4 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | Team-Leads plus Architecture | 3-12 | 3-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review Cadence | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Expectation Map, Alignment Notes, Agreements |
Tags1 shared | TeamCollaborationAgile | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | AlignmentStakeholdersTeam |



