Symptom-to-path

Handover Friction

Handovers between teams feel like a restart every time. Context gets lost, wait times rise, and quality declines.

archetypes

Accidental Adversaries

Teams that actually want to collaborate drive each other into ruin through selfish local optimizations.

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Why this step:Makes the underlying pattern visible that keeps producing Handover Friction in everyday work.

diagnostics

Social Network Analysis

SNA exposes the real invisible architecture of organizational cliques by measuring who actually talks to whom and who remains isolated.

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Why this step:Helps explain Handover Friction not just descriptively, but in a structurally understandable way.

diagnostics

Dependency Mapping

A visualization of technical and organizational entanglements that exposes bottlenecks and dangerous coupling.

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Why this step:Adds a second perspective to the diagnosis so that side effects and limits become visible.

interventions

Information Flow Design

The surgical design of transparency that determines who may, must, and must never see which operational signals so information overload stops dominating the system.

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Why this step:Derives an initial intervention from the diagnosis that targets structure rather than only the symptom.

tooling

Collaborative Mapping Workflows

A survival manual for architecture workshops. How to moderate whiteboards, graphs, and models so brilliant insights do not rot away in Jira nirvana afterward.

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Why this step:Supports the practical implementation and documentation of the path from Handover Friction to change.

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