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| Criterion |  Team Design Team API |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Delivery Communication Plan |  Facilitation Alignment 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. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day initial, dann laufend | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-90 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-6 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team API Document | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |