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| Criterion |  Facilitation Team Charter |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Team Design Team API |  Decision Making DACI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | 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. | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | Half day initial, dann laufend | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-20 Reviewer | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Team API Document | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment |