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Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
A paper-based illustration representing arc42 with its core stages and visible working result.
Architecture
arc42
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 journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear.arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend1-3 h1-2 Tage
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder3-101-4
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesArchitecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication
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Architecture Inception Canvas
Paper illustration of a journey map with four connected phases, several experience lanes and a point marked for closer investigation.
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Customer Journey Mapping
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Architecture
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