"Fehlende Infrastruktur ist kein persönliches Problem."
Two interactive diagnostic tools that make coordination infrastructure visible. Built by the Institute for Collaboration Architecture.
For people who work in organisations. Answer questions about how your organisation actually works and watch a timber-framed house build — or fail to build — in response.
The tool assesses six structural elements across three states: Oak Beam (designed infrastructure), Twig (fragile, depends on individuals), or Gap (absent). When all questions are answered, gravity activates — the operational pressure your organisation actually faces — and the structure either holds or doesn't.
A figure stands inside the house. They carry what infrastructure should carry.
22 questions. Everything stays in the browser. No data is sent anywhere.
For leaders. Answer questions about the governance structures underneath your organisation and see whether your leadership methods provide a foundation — or whether your teams are standing on sand.
Five foundation segments, each in one of three states: Stein (solid, maintained), Sand (exists but depends on individuals), or Luft (nothing there — the value is in the Leitbild but there's no structure for it).
The five segments:
- Entscheidungstransparenz — Do affected people learn about decisions before they feel the consequences?
- Koordinationsanreize — Is coordination measured and rewarded, or do only individual results count?
- Feedbackinfrastruktur — Can people report structural problems without personal risk? Does anything happen?
- Verantwortung für Koordinationskosten — When coordination fails, who bears the cost, and is that visible?
- Lernfähigkeit der Organisation — Does the organisation learn from projects and failures, or does every initiative start from zero?
20 questions. Everything stays in the browser. No data is sent anywhere.
The house diagnostic tests coordination infrastructure from below — the experience of the people doing the work.
The foundation diagnostic tests governance infrastructure from above — whether leadership has built the structures to support coordination.
The roof of the house is operational pressure (Arbeitspensum, betrieblicher Druck). The foundation is what leadership provides underneath. The house between them is where people work. If the roof is heavy and the foundation is sand, the structure fails — no matter how solid the beams are.
Each tool stands alone. Each links to the other.
The Fachwerkhaus is not an illustration used as a framing device for a survey. The structural logic of timber-frame construction maps precisely onto the structural logic of coordination infrastructure:
- Walls without cross-braces collapse outward under load. Tools without habits do the same.
- Cross-braces only work when connected to walls. Culture that isn't connected to actual tool usage is decoration.
- A heavy roof on a structure without braces accelerates collapse. Strategic mandates on organisations without coordination infrastructure make things worse.
- The foundation is invisible when the house is working. You only notice it when it cracks.
The hand-drawn artwork is the product, not a placeholder. The drawings are by Anke Holst. Developer instruction: improve the code, the physics, the responsiveness.
- Pure HTML/CSS/JS. No frameworks, no dependencies.
- Runs entirely client-side. No server, no data collection, no cookies.
- Hosted on GitHub Pages.
The Fachwerkhaus-Diagnose is based on the Collaboration Architecture methodology, developed through three years of embedded practice in an 11,000-person industrial organisation. Published in Touchpoint (2026), presented at EA DACH (2026).
Position paper: Collaboration Architecture ins Business Capabilities Model (ResearchGate)
The code is open source. The hand-drawn artwork is proprietary — it may not be replaced, modified, or used outside the Institute's tools without permission. The methodology (Collaboration Architecture, Fachwerkhaus metaphor, Trampelpfade des Wissens, Archaeological Document Analysis) is Institute IP.
Anke Holst — hallo@ankeholst.de Institute for Collaboration Architecture — incolarc.com