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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
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
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.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-4 pro Pitch2-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan
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TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Paper illustration for Expectation Mapping.
Facilitation
Expectation Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid