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Paper illustration of a journey map with four connected phases, several experience lanes and a point marked for closer investigation.
UX Research
Customer Journey Mapping
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Purposedifferent
When a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately.The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.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 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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h1-2 hHalf dayHalf day initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
4-103-10Team-Leads plus ArchitectureEin Team plus Stakeholder
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity BacklogArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality AttributesInteraction Heat Map, Agreements per PairTeam API Document
Tagsno overlap
JourneyServiceService design
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
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