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Selected:Golden Path Problem Interview Solution Interview ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Engineering Golden Path	Product Discovery Problem Interview	Product Discovery Solution Interview	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
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 the picture of the problem still needs to become solid, it asks about real situations and consequences. It separates genuine suffering from mere interest in a solution.	When a solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation.	ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.
Complexitysame	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 Tage Setup, laufend	30-60 min je Interview	30-60 min je Interview	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	2-8	5-12 Interviews	5-10 Interviews	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatsame	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks	Problem Evidence, Risk Notes, Customer Segments	Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation Notes	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	EngineeringProductivityGovernance	DiscoveryInterviewsValidation	ValidationInterviewsPrototype	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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