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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 an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
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.IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.
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Timedifferent
1-2 h2-8 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-85-122-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Domain Story, Glossary Notes, Process NarrativeEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsIssue Map, Positions, Argument Notes
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KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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Facilitation
Decision Jam
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling