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Criterion
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Purposedifferent
When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.When a domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min2-8 h60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-85-124-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision BoundariesEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree