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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
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Delivery
Shape Up
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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.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-4 pro Pitch1-3
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
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TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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Architecture Communication Canvas
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