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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Delivery RAID Log |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 45-60 min | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |