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| Criterion |  Facilitation Team Charter |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Team Design Team API |  Architecture arc42 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. | 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. | arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1-2 h | Half day initial, dann laufend | 1-2 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-10 | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 1-4 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Team API Document | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication |