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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 Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
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.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighHighMedium
Timedifferent
2-8 h2-4 hHalf day60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
5-123-83-122-8
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Event Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved InjectionsLeverage Map, Action StrategyConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments
Tagsno overlap
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
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