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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Engineering Fault Isolation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 30-240 min | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 30-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-6 | 3-20 Reviewer | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering |