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Criterion
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
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
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.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
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
5-15 min1-3 Tage Setup, laufend90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
1-52-83-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepGolden Path Guide, Templates, Quality ChecksGQM Table, Metric Profiles
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StartupValidationCompetition
EngineeringProductivityGovernance
MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment
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Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics