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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Agile ROAM Board |  Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) |  Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List. | ATAM helps teams weigh architecture decisions when quality goals compete. The team considers business goals, stakeholder expectations, and technical decisions together. The evaluation shows which risks need further investigation. | When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-15 | Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | ROAM Board, Owner List | Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance |