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Paper illustration for Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
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.McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result.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
MediumLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 hHalf day initial, dann laufend2-4 hHalf day
Participantsdifferent
3-12Ein Team plus Stakeholder3-12Team-Leads plus Architecture
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team Charter, Working Norms, Role NotesTeam API Document7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change ActionsInteraction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair
Tags1 shared
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
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