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| Criterion |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Engineering Golden Path |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Business Strategy Value Chain Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | 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. | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | Value Chain Analysis shows where value is created, costs accrue, and differentiation becomes possible along the process. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a value-chain map and lever list. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 30-180 min | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 45-90 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 2-8 | 1-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Value Chain Map, Lever List |
Tagsno overlap | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis |