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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
Operations
Accountability Ladder
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.Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts.With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on.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
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down20-45 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-4 pro Pitch1-82-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesOwnership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching NotesCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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