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Criterion
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
A paper-based illustration representing Domain Storytelling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Domain Storytelling
Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
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.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.Systems Mapping arranges elements, relationships, and boundaries so a complex field becomes legible at a glance. The overview stabilizes the overall picture before detail work or steering begins.Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-2 h1-3 hHalf day
Participantsdifferent
2-82-83-123-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Context Map, Integration Patterns, Boundary NotesDomain Story, Glossary Notes, Process NarrativeSystem Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsLeverage Map, Action Strategy
Tagsno overlap
Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesStrategy
KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
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