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| Criterion | ![]() Team Design Team API | ![]() Facilitation Team Charter | ![]() Operations Accountability Ladder | ![]() 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 is starting fresh or working past each other, Team Charter clarifies the shared working basis. It visibly sets out how collaboration, decision paths, and mutual conduct should work day to day. | With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on. | 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 | 2-4 h | 20-45 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 3-12 | 1-8 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team API Document | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching Notes | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tags1 shared | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |



