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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  Delivery RAID Log |  Decision Making Red Teaming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting. | For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 1-3 h | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 1-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-8 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | SensemakingDecisionRationale | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | RiskDecisionSensemaking |