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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Alignment 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.When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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
LowLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend20-40 min initial, dann laufend30 min Setup, dann laufend1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder3-151-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone4-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentROAM Board, Owner ListRAID Log, Status Report SourceAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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