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| Criterion |  Domain Modeling EventStorming |  Innovation Starbursting |  Knowledge Modeling Domain Storytelling |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | 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. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-8 h | 30-60 min | 1-2 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Event Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open Questions | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Domain Story, Glossary Notes, Process Narrative | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |