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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Purposedifferent
When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 minHalf day initial, dann laufend6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down
Participantsdifferent
2-6Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-4 pro Pitch
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceTeam API DocumentPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes
Tagsno overlap
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
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Paper illustration for Expectation Mapping.
Facilitation
Expectation Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas