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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 Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
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.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 hHalf day initial, dann laufendHalf day2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-12Ein Team plus StakeholderTeam-Leads plus Architecture3-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team Charter, Working Norms, Role NotesTeam API DocumentInteraction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions
Tags1 shared
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange
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