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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Engineering Golden Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 15-45 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 1-3 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | EngineeringProductivityGovernance |