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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
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.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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend15-45 min30 min Setup, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder1-31-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentADR File, Decision Log, RationaleRAID Log, Status Report Source
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Expectation Mapping.
Facilitation
Expectation Mapping