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| Criterion |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Delivery RAID Log |  Engineering Golden Path |  Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting. | 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 systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-180 min | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 30-240 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 2-8 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary |
Tagsno overlap | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis |