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| Criterion |  Team Design Team API |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Facilitation Expectation Mapping |  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. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | 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. | 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 | 90-180 min | 45-90 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 3-6 | 3-12 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team API Document | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Expectation Map, Alignment Notes, Agreements | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tags1 shared | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | AlignmentStakeholdersTeam | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |