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Criterion	Engineering Golden Path	Architecture Request for Comments	Architecture Software Architecture Canvas	Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas
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.	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.	The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.	The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 Tage Setup, laufend	1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung	1-2 h	60-120 min
Participantsdifferent	2-8	3-20 Reviewer	3-10	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks	RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets	Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes	Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan
Tagsno overlap	EngineeringProductivityGovernance	ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance	CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop	ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas

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