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| Criterion | ![]() Growth North Star Metric | ![]() Team Design Team API | ![]() Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | Half day initial, dann laufend | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Team API Document | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tags1 shared | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |
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