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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Engineering Golden Path |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Decision Making DACI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 90-180 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-8 | 3-6 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment |