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Criterion
Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
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
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.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-180 min30-60 min2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
1-63-105-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open Questions
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TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
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