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A paper-based illustration representing Domain Storytelling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Domain Storytelling
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Purposedifferent
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.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.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
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 h15-45 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-81-31-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Domain Story, Glossary Notes, Process NarrativeADR File, Decision Log, RationaleArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
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KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
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Knowledge Modeling
Concept Mapping