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| Criterion | ![]() Engineering Golden Path | ![]() Facilitation Team Charter | ![]() Facilitation Alignment Mapping | ![]() Facilitation Power Interest Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 is starting fresh or working past each other, Team Charter clarifies the shared working basis. It visibly sets out how collaboration, decision paths, and mutual conduct should work day to day. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | When many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 2-4 h | 1-2 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | 4-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Power Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning |



