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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Growth Flywheel |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 60-120 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | GrowthRetentionConversion | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |
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