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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Decision Making RAPID |  Facilitation Team Charter |  Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | When a team is starting fresh or working past each other, Team Charter clarifies the shared working basis. It visibly sets out how collaboration, decision paths, and mutual conduct should work day to day. | When several teams collaborate repeatedly, it describes the right interaction mode for each interface between them. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as an interaction heat map and pairwise agreements. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 45-90 min | 2-4 h | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | 3-12 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | DecisionRolesGovernance | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |