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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
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 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
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-4 pro Pitch3-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes
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TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
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Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
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Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
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Communication Plan