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Criterion
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Paper illustration of an activity-role table with clear RACI assignments and one highlighted accountable role per activity.
Operations
RACI Matrix
Paper illustration for Golden Path
Engineering
Golden Path
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric
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.With unclear responsibilities across several roles or areas, the method creates unambiguous accountability logic. It reduces friction because decision, execution, contribution, and information become separately visible.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
90-180 min45-90 min1-3 Tage Setup, laufend90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
4-122-82-83-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Decision Rights Matrix, AgreementRACI Matrix, Responsibility Map, Decision NotesGolden Path Guide, Templates, Quality ChecksGQM Table, Metric Profiles
Tagsno overlap
DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility
RolesResponsibilityGovernanceOperations
EngineeringProductivityGovernance
MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment
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