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Gap Analysis method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
GAP Analysis
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 a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
Purposedifferent
GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing.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 a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h2-8 h45-90 min2-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-85-123-83-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk NotesEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsCompleted Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment
Tagsno overlap
StrategyAnalysisPlanning
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
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