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| Criterion |  Decision Making DACI |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Decision Making RAPID |  Engineering Golden Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 90-180 min | 45-90 min | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 3-6 | 3-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | DecisionRolesGovernance | EngineeringProductivityGovernance |