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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Business Strategy Strategy Execution Loop |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Strategy Execution Loop helps avoid treating strategy as a one-off document. It makes visible how strategic decisions are turned into objectives, initiatives, operational work, measurement, and learning. | 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. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 5-12 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-3 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance |