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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 RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.When experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
2-8 h30 min Setup, dann laufend1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
5-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone5-20
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Event Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceDiary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline
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Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
UX researchTrackingBehavior
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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 of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming