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| Criterion |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Engineering Golden Path |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 90-180 min | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | EngineeringProductivityGovernance |
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