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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 Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of Riskiest Assumption Test with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Riskiest Assumption Test
Purposedifferent
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 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.When an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2-8 h1-3 h1-2 Wochen pro Iteration
Participantsdifferent
5-121-82-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Event Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationalePrioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report
Tagsno overlap
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
SensemakingDecisionRationale
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions
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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 of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
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Product Discovery
Fake Door Test