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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Engineering Golden Path |  Decision Making RAPID |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 45-90 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-8 | 3-12 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | DecisionRolesGovernance | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility |