Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by performing empathy-based research, defining the problem, and testing and iterating with users.
Core question: Which real user problem is worth solving, and which solution idea survives a test with real users?
FrameworkMethod form: Framework. Describes how this method is used in practice.HighComplexity: high. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen
4-10
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Domain ModelingCategory: Domain Modeling. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns domain knowledge, language, and system boundaries into a tangible result by selecting a business flow, collecting domain events chronologically, and deriving models and follow-up questions.
Core question: Which business events, triggers, and boundaries shape the flow, and where do friction, risk, or learning needs arise?
Workshop methodMethod form: Workshop method. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
2-8 h
5-12
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AgileCategory: Agile. Describes the method's domain of use.
Product Backlog, Sprint Goal, Increment, and retrospective loops create a repeatable cadence for complex product work.
Core question: Which incrementally deliverable, valuable Sprint Goal will the team pursue in the next 1-4 weeks, and how will it adapt its approach based on sprint results?
FrameworkMethod form: Framework. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend
3-10 (Scrum Team)
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UX ResearchCategory: UX Research. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns observations, needs, and patterns into a tangible result by selecting a journey, mapping phases, and prioritizing opportunities.
Core question: How does the selected persona experience the end-to-end journey, where does friction or frustration occur, and what opportunities emerge from these gaps?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
2-4 h
4-10
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Product StrategyCategory: Product Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns customer value, goals, and priorities into a tangible result through defining objectives, setting key results, and running review and adjustment.
Core question: Which three to five measurable outcomes will the team deliver next quarter, and how can success be recognized objectively?
Planning toolMethod form: Planning tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-2 h Setup
2-20
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DeliveryCategory: Delivery. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns scope, ordering, and flow into a tangible result by collecting items, assigning must/should/could/won't categories, and finalizing the release set.
Core question: Which items must be included in the release, which are negotiable, and how much scope remains for stakeholder negotiation?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-90 min
3-12
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AgileCategory: Agile. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns sprint backlog, sprint execution, and team flow into a tangible result through reflecting on the sprint, collecting positives and challenges, and carrying actions into the next sprint.
Core question: Which one change to process or system will improve the next sprint most, and who will implement it bindingly?
Facilitation methodMethod form: Facilitation method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
45-90 min
3-10
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Business StrategyCategory: Business Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns starting assumptions, opportunities, and strategic options into a tangible result by defining scope, filling the nine blocks, and developing alternatives.
Core question: How does the business model create, deliver, and capture value, and which assumptions should be checked first?
CanvasMethod form: Canvas. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-2 h
2-8
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UX ResearchCategory: UX Research. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns observations, needs, and patterns into a tangible result by defining research goals, recruiting participants, and sharing insights.
Core question: How do users behave in real situations, which motives drive them, and which pain points should shape discovery or design decisions?
Research methodMethod form: Research method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-60 min je Session
5-12
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Product DiscoveryCategory: Product Discovery. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence into a tangible result by defining the user goal, laying out backbone activities, and deriving the backlog.
Core question: Which narrowest end-to-end flow delivers the first real value to the user, and what is the next meaningful slice after that?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
2-4 h
4-10
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InnovationCategory: Innovation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by mapping the challenge, sketching solutions, and testing with users.
Core question: What solution sketch for the core sprint question yields a testable prototype in four days that can be tested with real users on Day 5?
Process modelMethod form: Process model. Describes how this method is used in practice.HighComplexity: high. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
4-5 Tage
5-8
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EngineeringCategory: Engineering. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns technical problems, assumptions, and next steps into a tangible result through mapping the workflow, making work visible, and improving bottlenecks.
Core question: How does work flow through the stages, where does it queue up, and which policy keeps WIP limits intact?
FrameworkMethod form: Framework. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
Ongoing
2-12
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OperationsCategory: Operations. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result through defining the problem, asking why, and defining countermeasures.
Core question: Which controllable cause behind the symptom can the team fix with a concrete countermeasure?
Analysis methodMethod form: Analysis method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
15-30 min
2-6
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Decision MakingCategory: Decision Making. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns options, criteria, and risks into a tangible result through defining the initiative, assuming failure, and assigning mitigations.
Core question: What reasons could cause the initiative to fail, and which mitigations can we build in now to reduce these risks?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
20-45 min
4-10
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InnovationCategory: Innovation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result through setting a prompt, writing silently, and reviewing the output.
Core question: What range of ideas can we generate when each person first writes quietly and builds on others' ideas?
Workshop methodMethod form: Workshop method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
15-30 min
3-12
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Product StrategyCategory: Product Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns target group, value, goals, and priorities into a tangible result by defining the problem, capturing customer segments, and prioritizing risks.
Core question: Which assumptions about problem, target group, and business model must be tested next before investing further?
CanvasMethod form: Canvas. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
45-90 min
1-6
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FacilitationCategory: Facilitation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns group input, selection, and decisions into a tangible result by making options visible, explaining voting limits, and discussing outliers.
Core question: Which options receive the most support from the group, and where do consensus or polarization appear?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
5-15 min
3-20
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Product StrategyCategory: Product Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns target group, value, goals, and priorities into a tangible result by setting the goal, identifying actors, and choosing the smallest meaningful next steps.
Core question: Which actors must change behavior for the business goal to be reached, and which actions support that?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
45-90 min
3-8
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Decision MakingCategory: Decision Making. Describes the method's domain of use.
Sorts tasks by urgency and importance and turns them into a simple action decision.
Core question: Which tasks deserve focus time today, which should be planned, which can be delegated, and which can be dropped?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
15-30 min
1-6
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Business StrategyCategory: Business Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns the current situation, opportunities, and strategic options into a tangible result through defining scope, collecting strengths and weaknesses, and defining actions.
Core question: Which internal strengths and weaknesses meet which external opportunities and threats, and which action logic follows from that?
Analysis methodMethod form: Analysis method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-60 min
3-12
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Product StrategyCategory: Product Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns target groups, value, goals, and priorities into a tangible result by collecting initiatives, estimating reach, and calculating scores.
Core question: Which initiative delivers the greatest expected outcome per invested effort, and where is estimation uncertainty so high that the order says little?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-60 min
2-10
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OperationsCategory: Operations. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by choosing a task, setting a 25-minute timer, and taking a longer break after four cycles.
Core question: Which task will I work on without interruption for the next 25 min, and how many of these cycles will I deliver today?
Personal productivity methodMethod form: Personal productivity method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.AsyncFormat: async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
25 min Zyklen
1
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Systems ThinkingCategory: Systems Thinking. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns relationships, patterns, and leverage points into a tangible result by defining user need, collecting value-chain components, and deriving strategic moves.
Core question: Which components of the value chain move toward commodity in the next 12-18 months, and which strategic moves follow?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-3 h
2-10
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FacilitationCategory: Facilitation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns group contributions, selection, and decision-making into a tangible result by defining three perspectives, collecting items, and deriving implications.
Core question: Which items sit in which intersections of the three perspectives, and what implications follow for next decisions?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
15-45 min
2-8
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OperationsCategory: Operations. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by forming the team, describing the problem, and verifying correction and prevention.
Core question: Which systematically evidenced cause system produced the defect, which immediate and corrective measures prevent further damage, and how is recurrence prevented permanently?
Process modelMethod form: Process model. Describes how this method is used in practice.HighComplexity: high. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-6 Wochen
4-10
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GrowthCategory: Growth. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns funnel performance, user behavior, and experiments into a tangible result through defining the hypothesis, planning metrics and sample size, and interpreting results.
Core question: Does the variant deliver a statistically significant effect on the success metric without degrading the counter-metric?
Research methodMethod form: Research method. Describes how this method is used in practice.HighComplexity: high. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.AsyncFormat: async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-4 Wochen
1-6
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OperationsCategory: Operations. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by defining the problem, capturing the current state, and defining follow-up actions.
Core question: Which root cause behind the problem can be shifted with a testable countermeasure so that the target state is demonstrably reached?
Operating practiceMethod form: Operating practice. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
45-90 min
2-5
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OperationsCategory: Operations. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns options, criteria, and risks into a tangible result by collecting items or causes, choosing a metric, and prioritizing top factors.
Core question: Which items belong in A, B, and C, and which treatment rule follows from each class?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.AsyncFormat: async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-60 min
1-5
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UX ResearchCategory: UX Research. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns observations, needs, and patterns into a tangible result through collecting notes, writing one idea per note card, and prioritizing implications.
Core question: What patterns, themes, and implications emerge when the raw notes are clustered by similarity?
Analysis methodMethod form: Analysis method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
45-90 min
3-10
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Business StrategyCategory: Business Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Clarifies starting point, opportunities, and strategic options by defining products and markets, collecting growth options, and choosing focus options.
Core question: Which mix of market penetration, market development, product development, and diversification fits the growth target and risk capacity?
Analysis methodMethod form: Analysis method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
45-90 min
2-8
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ArchitectureCategory: Architecture. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns architecture context, options, and consequences into a tangible result by capturing goals and stakeholders, scoping context, and linking risks and decisions.
Core question: Which architecture decisions, structures, and quality attributes does the reader need in order to understand, operate, and evolve the system?
Planning toolMethod form: Planning tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-2 Tage
1-4
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ArchitectureCategory: Architecture. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns architecture context, options, and consequences into a tangible result by naming the decision, describing context, and capturing consequences.
Core question: Which architecture decision needs to be recorded, and what context, options, decision, and consequences must a future reader understand?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.AsyncFormat: async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
15-45 min
1-3
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Business StrategyCategory: Business Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns current state, opportunities, and strategic options into a tangible result by clarifying the strategic vision, defining perspectives, and establishing a review cadence.
Core question: Which 12-20 metrics and initiatives across four perspectives translate the strategy into manageable work without neglecting learning or customer-oriented levers?
FrameworkMethod form: Framework. Describes how this method is used in practice.HighComplexity: high. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen
4-12
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DevOpsCategory: DevOps. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns incident work, roles, and countermeasures into a tangible result by documenting the incident, describing impact and timeline, and sharing learnings.
Core question: Which system conditions and decision points made the incident possible, and which concrete measures prevent recurrence?
Operating practiceMethod form: Operating practice. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-90 min
3-12
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Business StrategyCategory: Business Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Clarifies starting point, opportunities, and strategic options by defining the competitive factors, drawing the current value curve, and testing a new value curve.
Core question: Which competitive factors can we reduce or eliminate, which can we raise or create, in order to build a distinct value curve?
CanvasMethod form: Canvas. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
2-4 h
3-10
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InnovationCategory: Innovation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result through defining a challenge, agreeing on rules, and clustering and selecting outcomes.
Core question: What range of solution ideas can we generate for the challenge before we converge and choose?
Workshop methodMethod form: Workshop method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-60 min
4-12
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ArchitectureCategory: Architecture. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns architecture context, options, and consequences into a tangible result by drawing system context, identifying containers, and adding code-level detail only when needed.
Core question: How can the system be described at the right level of detail for communication and decisions?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-4 h
1-5
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UX ResearchCategory: UX Research. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns observations, needs, and patterns into a tangible result through preparing cards, choosing open or closed sorting, and refining the IA.
Core question: How do people naturally group and label these items?
Research methodMethod form: Research method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
20-45 min
5-15
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DeliveryCategory: Delivery. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns scope, sequencing, and delivery flow into a tangible result by listing stakeholders and audiences, clarifying information needs, and planning review and adaptation.
Core question: Which message reaches which audience through which channel in which cadence so the initiative is understood, accepted, and supported as planned?
Planning toolMethod form: Planning tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
45-90 min
2-6
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Knowledge ModelingCategory: Knowledge Modeling. Describes the method's domain of use.
Clarifies concepts, relationships, and rules by framing the focus question, gathering concepts, and checking gaps and contradictions.
Core question: Which concepts belong to the focus question, how are they semantically related, and where do knowledge gaps or contradictions appear?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-2 h
1-8
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Domain ModelingCategory: Domain Modeling. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns domain knowledge, language, and system boundaries into a tangible result by listing contexts, drawing relationships, and clarifying dependencies and conflicts.
Core question: Which Bounded Contexts exist, how are they integrated, where does friction and model drift occur, and which relationship patterns are appropriate?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-3 h
2-8
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UX ResearchCategory: UX Research. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns observations, needs, and patterns into a tangible result by clarifying the research question and context, recruiting participants, and synthesizing observations.
Core question: How does the participant carry out their work in the real context, which workarounds, artifacts, and implicit assumptions shape the process, and which of these observations are design-relevant?
Research methodMethod form: Research method. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-3 Wochen
4-12 Beobachtungen
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InnovationCategory: Innovation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by setting a challenge, starting a timer, and voting or combining ideas.
Core question: Which eight distinct solution directions can we visualize in eight minutes to break fixation on one idea?
Workshop methodMethod form: Workshop method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
8-15 min
1-10
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Systems ThinkingCategory: Systems Thinking. Describes the method's domain of use.
Clarifies connections, patterns, and leverage points by collecting undesirable effects, formulating causal links, and deriving interventions.
Core question: Which few core causes lie under the system's undesirable effects, and at which leverage points would an intervention resolve the most UDEs at once?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.HighComplexity: high. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
2-6 h
3-8
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Decision MakingCategory: Decision Making. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns options, criteria, and risks into a tangible result by defining the decision question, collecting options and conditions, and discussing the best path.
Core question: Which option or rule emerges when conditions, consequences, and uncertainties are explicitly branched?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-90 min
1-6
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Decision MakingCategory: Decision Making. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns options, criteria, and risks into a tangible result by defining the question and panel, querying in the first round, and deriving the outcome in the next round.
Core question: What range or which consensus emerges when experts give iterative, anonymous estimates on an uncertain future question?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.HighComplexity: high. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.AsyncFormat: async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-4 Wochen
6-30 Experten
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OperationsCategory: Operations. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by defining the problem and scope, measuring process performance, and establishing controls.
Core question: Which data-supported root causes explain the problem, which solutions reduce them measurably, and how is improvement made durable in the process?
Process modelMethod form: Process model. Describes how this method is used in practice.HighComplexity: high. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
2-12 Wochen
3-10
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InnovationCategory: Innovation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Alternating divergent and convergent phases keep problem framing and solution design visibly separated for product work.
Core question: What framed problem and what implemented solution does the team deliver through deliberate divergence and convergence across two diamonds?
Process modelMethod form: Process model. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.