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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Agile Specification by Example |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 business rules need to become precise, it ties language, example, and test together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as an Example Table and Acceptance Tests. | 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. | When a story needs clear checkpoints before implementation, it sharpens expectation and scope together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Acceptance Criteria and a Story Update. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 60-90 min pro Feature | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 20-40 min pro Story |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-6 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Example Table, Acceptance Tests | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Acceptance Criteria, Story Update |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | AgileRequirementsExamplesBehavior-Driven Development | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development |