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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Decision Making DACI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | 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 cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | Mehrere Wochen | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-20 Reviewer | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment |