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Selected:Golden PathShape-First ModelingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Competency Questions
| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Knowledge Modeling Shape-First Modeling |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Shape-First Modeling defines data quality through shapes before implementation or integration frays at the edges. The approach fits when validation and data contracts should be part of the design from the start. | 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. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | Halber Tag pro Domain Slice | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-4 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | SHACL or ShEx Shapes, Validation Reports, Data Contracts, Shape Documentation | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | Knowledge graphValidationSemantic | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic |