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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
A paper-based illustration representing Bounded Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Domain Modeling
Bounded Context Canvas
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 a business context is still loosely outlined, it shapes language, responsibility, and integration space. It clarifies what belongs together and where a boundary needs to hold.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 h15-45 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-81-33-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Domain Story, Glossary Notes, Process NarrativeADR File, Decision Log, RationaleContext Canvas, Glossary, Integration Notes
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KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesModeling
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Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
Paper illustration for Domain Context Map
Domain Modeling
Domain Context Map
Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS