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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 Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
2-8 h60-120 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-122-84-10
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Event Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next ExperimentsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling