Offsite format selector

The decision it supports

Use the offsite format selector to make this choice explicit and reviewable: What kind of offsite best fits the team's purpose and development stage? The working view makes purpose, team stage, and trust visible so discussion can move from general opinion to a specific action or decision.

When to use it

Use the offsite format selector when several reasonable paths exist in team development, the trade-offs cannot all be removed, and the decision needs to be explained later. Agree how purpose, team stage, and trust will be judged before advocating an option.

What it compares

The offsite format selector is a transparent comparison of credible paths, their evidence, trade-offs, authority, and review conditions. Its core working elements are purpose, team stage, trust, and decisions. Those elements belong together because each changes how the others should be interpreted or acted on.

Decision criteria

Purpose

State the intended contribution in plain language and distinguish the enduring purpose from the current plan. Within the offsite format selector, connect this entry to team stage so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Team stage

Use a small controlled set of states, define the entry and exit condition for each, and record the date of the latest change. Within the offsite format selector, connect this entry to trust so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Trust

Capture trust only at the level needed to answer: What kind of offsite best fits the team's purpose and development stage? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the offsite format selector, connect this entry to decisions so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Decisions

Name the decision, the person or body with final authority, the date, and the rationale that should remain visible later. Within the offsite format selector, connect this entry to creation so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Creation

Capture creation only at the level needed to answer: What kind of offsite best fits the team's purpose and development stage? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the offsite format selector, connect this entry to connection so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Connection

Capture connection only at the level needed to answer: What kind of offsite best fits the team's purpose and development stage? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the offsite format selector, connect this entry to duration so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Duration

Capture duration only at the level needed to answer: What kind of offsite best fits the team's purpose and development stage? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the offsite format selector, connect this entry to format so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Format

Capture format only at the level needed to answer: What kind of offsite best fits the team's purpose and development stage? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the offsite format selector, connect this entry to readiness so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Readiness

Capture readiness only at the level needed to answer: What kind of offsite best fits the team's purpose and development stage? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the offsite format selector, connect this entry to format so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.