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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 of a Concept Map with concepts and labelled links
Knowledge Modeling
Concept Mapping
A paper-based illustration representing Domain Storytelling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Domain Storytelling
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.Concept Mapping arranges terms and relationships in a network that makes subject-matter connections tangible. It fits when a topic needs to be understood structurally rather than linearly.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2-8 h1-2 h1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
5-121-82-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Event Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsConcept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge GapsDomain Story, Glossary Notes, Process Narrative
Tagsno overlap
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking
KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess
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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 Knowledge Mapping.
Knowledge Modeling
Knowledge Mapping
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping