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A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Purposedifferent
Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic.With an overloaded day full of too many tasks, a realistic picture of the day emerges. The method connects estimating, deciding, and buffer thinking so planning fits available energy and time.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
2-6 h10-20 min daily1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-811-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Event Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read ModelsDaily Plan, Time Estimates, Review NotesArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
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 notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done