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| Criterion | ![]() Team Design Team API | ![]() Agile Working Agreements | ![]() Agile Affinity Estimation | ![]() 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 collaboration needs more than implicit expectations, it lays out shared ground rules openly. It creates reliability for conduct, availability, and decision paths. | When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day initial, dann laufend | 45-90 min | 30-90 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 3-12 | 3-12 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team API Document | Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review Cadence | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | TeamCollaborationAgile | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |



