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Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
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 Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting.
Engineering
Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting
Purposedifferent
In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected.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.When systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-180 min2-8 h30-240 min
Participantsdifferent
1-65-121-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsHypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary
Tagsno overlap
TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis
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Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
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Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
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