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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 for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
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.Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 h60-90 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
2-84-12Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Domain Story, Glossary Notes, Process NarrativeAnnotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action BacklogPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
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KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
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 for Knowledge Mapping.
Knowledge Modeling
Knowledge Mapping