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Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
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 Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.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.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.
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Timedifferent
45-90 min2-8 h2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
1-65-123-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
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StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints Thinking Process.
Systems Thinking
Theory of Constraints Thinking Process
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor Analysis