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Criterion
Six paper cards show a person moving from a problem through a service flow to a completed outcome.
UX Design
Storyboarding
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Purposedifferent
When a usage scenario needs to become understandable early, it condenses situations, context, and flow into a legible sequence. It helps check concept ideas before anything gets built.CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min45-90 min1-2 h Setup, laufend45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-83-812-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsCATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, ConstraintsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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