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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
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture 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 Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-2 h1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-4 pro Pitch3-83-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesInception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open QuestionsArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
AlignmentArchitectureCanvas
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
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