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Criterion
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 mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
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 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.When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
2-8 h15-30 min15-45 min20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
5-123-121-104-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Event Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsIdea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized listMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsIdea List, Cluster, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
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