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Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
Operations
Accountability Ladder
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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.With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend20-45 min15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder1-81-3
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentOwnership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching NotesADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
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