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Criterion
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
Paper illustration of Strategy Map with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Strategy Map
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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.A Strategy Map translates strategy into a few connected objectives across perspectives such as finance, customers, processes, and learning. This makes visible which capabilities and activities are meant to drive which results.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h2-4 h workshop plus review1-2 h Setup, laufend1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
2-84-1014-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Context Map, Integration Patterns, Boundary NotesStrategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect HypothesesAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesStrategy
AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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