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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
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Decision Making
Decision Rights 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.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.In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-4 pro Pitch4-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesDecision Rights Matrix, Agreement
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility
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