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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Team Design Spotify Model Mapping |  Decision Making RAPID |  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. | When a team landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action list. | 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 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 | 90-180 min | 45-90 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 5-15 | 3-12 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Spotify Model Map, Action List | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis | DecisionRolesGovernance | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |