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| Criterion | ![]() Team Design Team API | ![]() Team Design Spotify Model Mapping | ![]() Agile Sailboat Retrospective | ![]() Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When a team landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action list. | When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture. | When several teams collaborate repeatedly, it describes the right interaction mode for each interface between them. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as an interaction heat map and pairwise agreements. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day initial, dann laufend | 90-180 min | 45-90 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 5-15 | 4-12 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team API Document | Spotify Model Map, Action List | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tags1 shared | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |



