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| Criterion |  Team Design Team API |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Facilitation Expectation 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. | 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. | Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question. | When roles, interfaces, or projects fail because of differing expectations, Expectation Mapping surfaces these differences. It shows what each side takes for granted and where the pictures diverge. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Half day initial, dann laufend | 15-45 min | 1-3 Tage | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 1-3 | 1-4 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team API Document | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Expectation Map, Alignment Notes, Agreements |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | AlignmentStakeholdersTeam |