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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling Domain Storytelling |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |  Decision Making Decision Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-8 | 4-12 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Domain Story, Glossary Notes, Process Narrative | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess | FlowMeasurementConstraints | FacilitationOptionsDecision | DecisionTreeOptions |