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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
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling
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.Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
2-8 h30 min Setup, dann laufend2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
5-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Event Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceEvent Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models
Tagsno overlap
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
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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 Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming