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Criterion
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration of a Concept Map with concepts and labelled links
Knowledge Modeling
Concept Mapping
A paper-based illustration representing Domain Storytelling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Domain Storytelling
Purposedifferent
When several contexts need to talk to each other, it makes their relationships and dependencies legible. It helps sort integration pressure and responsibilities across system boundaries.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.Concept Mapping arranges terms and relationships in a network that makes subject-matter connections tangible. It fits when a topic needs to be understood structurally rather than linearly.Domain Storytelling translates domain knowledge into a shared narrative of actors, objects, and workflows. It is especially useful when language, rules, and process understanding must be tightly connected.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 hHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen1-2 h1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
2-84-121-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Context Map, Integration Patterns, Boundary NotesBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapConcept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge GapsDomain Story, Glossary Notes, Process Narrative
Tagsno overlap
Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesStrategy
StrategyMetricsExecution
KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking
KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess
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