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Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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 architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend60-90 min15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder4-121-3
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentAnnotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action BacklogADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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