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| Criterion |  Facilitation Team Charter |  Team Design Team API |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | Half day initial, dann laufend | 15-45 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 1-3 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Team API Document | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas |