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Criterion
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
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 for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Purposedifferent
When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.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 statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen2-8 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
6-30 Experten5-121-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
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ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam