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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration of a decision table with criteria rows, weighted ratings, and a narrowly leading alternative.
Decision Making
Decision Matrix
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
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 several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend45-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-82-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentDecision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected OptionCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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Paper illustration for Expectation Mapping.
Facilitation
Expectation Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping