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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |  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. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 20–45 min | 90-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Small cross-functional group | 4-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |