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| Criterion |  Team Design Team API |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Decision Making Decision Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | When several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day initial, dann laufend | 45-120 min | 1-2 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 2-8 | 4-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Team API Document | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs |