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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
Purposedifferent
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 a story needs clear checkpoints before implementation, it sharpens expectation and scope together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Acceptance Criteria and a Story Update.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.When a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend20-40 min pro Story1-2 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder3-64-123-7
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentAcceptance Criteria, Story UpdateAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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