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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Engineering Golden Path |  Architecture C4 Model |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | The C4 Model makes a system legible across several resolution levels, from context down to code. It suits situations where different audiences need to understand the same architecture from different altitudes. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 1-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-8 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Context Diagram, Container Diagram, Component Diagram |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization |
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