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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
Paper illustration for Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter
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
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.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h2-4 h1-2 hHalf day
Participantsdifferent
4-103-123-10Team-Leads plus Architecture
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity BacklogTeam Charter, Working Norms, Role NotesArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality AttributesInteraction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair
Tagsno overlap
JourneyServiceService design
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
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