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Paper illustration for Ideal Days.
Agile
Ideal Days
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Purposedifferent
When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats.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.When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
15-60 minHalf day initial, dann laufend20-40 min initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
2-9Ein Team plus Stakeholder3-15
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsTeam API DocumentROAM Board, Owner List
Tagsno overlap
EstimationEffortAgile
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
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