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| Criterion | ![]() Team Design Team API | ![]() Agile Working Agreements | ![]() Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes | ![]() Team Design Spotify Model Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day initial, dann laufend | 45-90 min | Half day | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 3-12 | Team-Leads plus Architecture | 5-15 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team API Document | Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review Cadence | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair | Spotify Model Map, Action List |
Tags1 shared | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | TeamCollaborationAgile | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis |



