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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Domain Storytelling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Domain Storytelling
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 of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
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.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 loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on.Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-2 h2-8 h15-30 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-85-123-123-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Domain Story, Glossary Notes, Process NarrativeEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsIdea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized listStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
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