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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 Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor Analysis
Causal Loop Diagram workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Causal Loop Diagram
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.For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events.A Causal Loop Diagram makes feedback, reinforcement, and balance in a system legible. It uncovers side effects and self-reinforcement that stay hidden in linear explanations.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
2-8 h2-6 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
5-123-102-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Event Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsEvent Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective ActionsCausal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points
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Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline
FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics
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Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Stock and Flow Diagram method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Stock and Flow Diagram
Paper illustration of Barrier Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
Barrier Analysis